10 Nov 2014
We would love for each class, every student to be involved in the "Hour of Code". This grassroots campaign goal is for tens of millions of students to try an Hour of Code during December 8-14, 2014, in celebration of Computer Science Education Week.
What is it?: 1 hour that you spend during the week working through a graded tutorial session learning how "code" is written. The idea is to show that anyone can learn the basics, and have fun doing it! In one hour you will learn how to code. For a look at some of last year's tutorials go to the link below. It is a lot of fun and easy. It is for ages 4 and up so don't think you can't do it.
Hour of Codeactivities are self-guided. All you have to do is try the current tutorials,pick the tutorial you want, and pick an hour — the "Hour of Code" management team take care of the rest. There are options for every age and experience-level, from kindergarten and up. Help for planning how to guide.
- http://code.org/learn-on this site you will find Tutorials for beginners as well as other tutorial that you can direct students to if they wish to extend themselves into other areas such as Tutorials that teach JavaScript; tutorial apps for any device; other programming languages; build an i phone game; build your own puzzle game.