[Swansea Hackspace] Summer coding course

[Ceri Clatworthy]

BBC MICRO BIT

Can be programmed with a Scratch like interface.

Java I think.

Or REAL using MBED

Drag and drop programer included.

Lots of LEDs
Bluetooth too...

And schools SHOULD be using them too....

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:55 David Davies-Day, <djdavies83 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> My 10 year old daughter is showing interest in coding, would be great if
> we could get them together a couple of times over the summer or arrange
> something in Hackspace for other kids to attend,  she does better when
> other are involved/has a little competition.
>
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk>
> Date:24/07/2018 10:04 (GMT+00:00)
> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Summer coding course
>
> Leo’s,
> Thanks so much - I’ll delve into these and see which works best for Max. 🙏
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Richard
>
> On 24 July 2018 at 08:58:43, Leia Fee (leiafee at totalise.co.uk) wrote:
>
>> Stuff I've used with my learners in that vein...
>>
>> https://codecombat.com is a fun gamified thing.
>>
>> https://scratch.mit.edu/ they'll almost certainly know from school and
>> can work up some quite complex stuff.
>>
>> All the https://www.codeclub.org.uk/projects are online - they're
>> designed as taught sessions but easy to follow independently
>>
>> https://code.org/learn can be a bit hit and miss which features are
>> working at any given moment but it good when up as a sort of slightly
>> unstructured pick-a-mix
>>
>> Not sure if obsession with Minecraft is still as common as it was but
>> learning coding as a method of doing fun stuff with that worked well to:
>> https://arghbox.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/minecraft-pi-recipe-cards/
>>
>> Leia
>>
>> 2018-07-24 7:35 GMT+01:00 Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk>
>> :
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>> With Summer upon us - is there a coding course that would be suitable
>>> for an 11yr old to learn the basics of coding that you would recommend?
>>>
>>> Might be Home based to avoid logistics and travel and should have tests
>>> to prove success at each stage if poss?
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
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