Malone elementary students,
welcome to your Hour of Code!
Ok, what's the Hour of Code?
Coding is using a special language to tell a computer what to do. Everything you do using a computer, from playing a game on an iPad, to texting a friend on your phone, to being able to read this page is possible because someone wrote the code for it.
The Hour of Code is an international event. Right now, as you are learning how to code, thousands of other students around the world are learning too!
What we want you to see today is that you can write this code too! In fact, that is exactly what you will be doing. You will be using something called block code to see how code tells computers what to do.
Before we get started, take a look at these two short videos:
Coding is using a special language to tell a computer what to do. Everything you do using a computer, from playing a game on an iPad, to texting a friend on your phone, to being able to read this page is possible because someone wrote the code for it.
The Hour of Code is an international event. Right now, as you are learning how to code, thousands of other students around the world are learning too!
What we want you to see today is that you can write this code too! In fact, that is exactly what you will be doing. You will be using something called block code to see how code tells computers what to do.
Before we get started, take a look at these two short videos:
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Enough talk! Let's code!
Below are a set of tutorials (lessons) that you can choose from that will each teach you the basics of coding. Pick your tutorial based on what looks interesting and fun to you. Click on its picture to get started.
Below are a set of tutorials (lessons) that you can choose from that will each teach you the basics of coding. Pick your tutorial based on what looks interesting and fun to you. Click on its picture to get started.
That was great! Now what's next?
If you enjoyed your Hour of Code and want more practice, go ahead and try one of the other tutorials.
If you think you're ready to move on to bigger and better things check these out:
If you enjoyed your Hour of Code and want more practice, go ahead and try one of the other tutorials.
If you think you're ready to move on to bigger and better things check these out:
Tynker
This site has many games and activities. At the top of the page is a line with grades. Click on Grade K+ for Kindergarten, first, or second. Click on Grade 3+ for third, fourth, or fifth. If you think you've mastered the basics of coding, click on Grade 6+ to try out some more advanced coding. |
Scratch
This site lets you use block code to do all kinds of things. The "Getting Started" lesson takes you through how the site works, and is a good place to start because there are something things that are different than the tutorials above. For younger students, if you have an iPad or tablet you can use, there is a free Scratch Jr. app that you should check out. |
Computer Science Fundamentals Courses from Code.org
These are broken into smaller lessons like the tutorials above. But each of these courses can take up to 20 hours to complete. You don't have to do that all at one time though. Click on the picture to go to the course. |