Tynker : iPad

June 7, 2019 by Paul

Description

Tynker is another great FREE app using a visual drag and drop comprised of code blocks to create and solve coding puzzles.

You can build your own games using the Tynker Workshop which includes 9 game-kits and hundreds of characters.

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Define your own functions and variables
Build musical projects using the built-in notes for piano, electric guitar and drums.
Add tilt, touch and other native behaviours to your games
Build an unlimited portfolio of games and projects to play with friends
Work offline without Internet connectivity

Create games and apps quickly
Use the same visual programming language introduced in the puzzle adventures.

Built-in physics engine for advanced games

9 complete pre-built game kits to remix your own game from
5 Media Themes with hundreds of assets – Fantasy, Adventure, Sci Fi, Modern and Spooky
Included: Library of sample projects

Ages 9+

Drag and drop blocks to make things happen.

Tynker makes programming easily accessible and fun for kids aged 9+ with no prior knowledge experience of programming.

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Download and have a go…

I love the graphics Tynker uses there great for the younger student.

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Originally posted 2017-09-06 09:56:48.

Udemy Courses and Tutorials : Android

June 6, 2019 by

Description

Udemy is one of the worlds largest online education sites offering an array of courses and tutorials.

The coding and programming courses cover java, python, php, ruby.

Great for the older student who want to jump straight into coding with extensive knowledge base and videos to help you achieve.

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I encourage you to download the Free app and give Udemy a try your will enjoy the various coding and programming courses they offer, including

Programming (java, python, php, ruby, and more)

We know you’re busy. And that’s why every course on Udemy is available on demand, 24 / 7, so you can learn when and where you want.

With the Udemy app, you can squeeze in a few lectures on your commute. Or before bed. Or during lunch. Or just whenever you can find the time.

Udemy’s expert instructors have built thousands of courses including …

✔ Entrepreneurship
✔ Photography
✔ Yoga
✔ Marketing
✔ Salsa
✔ Cake Decorating
✔ Design

Videos to view and watch over and over even when your offline

When you download the Udemy App, you’ll join over 3,000,000 people who have already made the decision to accelerate their lives by taking a Udemy course.

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Works with Google Chrome cast so you can watch your course videos in comfort from any TV.

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Originally posted 2017-09-02 10:03:46.

LightBot Programming Puzzles : Android

June 6, 2019 by

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Description

Lightbot is a programming puzzle game that uses game mechanics that are firmly rooted in programming concepts.

Lightbot lets you guide a a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels. It lets players gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts such as procedures, loops, and conditionals.

This is a great first app for beginners to introduce the concepts of computer programming,

Lightbot features 50 levels and 20 challenge stars to collect and is a great application to all ages wanting to gain some experience and basic knowledge in programming,

We recommend this App for beginners and the young.

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“Best App to learn Programming/Coding!When this first went up as a Flash App in PC, I went ahead and got it to help me with my coding skills, and plus I like puzzles, and even though I’m not into any Programming anymore this still is a really great puzzle app. Please add more levels and functionality!”

“Challenging and fun I initially introduced the game to my son last year, when he was 7. He liked it but found it a bit too challenging after the first 4 or 5 levels. I probably should have tried the jr version first. I didn’t push it but he recently came back to it on his own. He is currently obsessed with it, which has me delighted as I think this is a brilliant app – the cute design & gameplay cleverly weave in the lessons, and being able to toggle the “gender” of the robot is a nice touch..”

“Great game! Does exactly what it says on the tin! Its perfect for a kick starter for picking up the whole basic concept of programming.”

“Fun puzzles for learning to code. Ideal for beginner coders. It would be great if the music could be turned off and keep sound effects..”

“Mind bending puzzles A touch of programming logic and great level design make a really good game. Beware, it gets challenging for adults 😉 I’d have liked a “slow-mo” speed option at times.”

“Very fun As a comp sci student, I had loads of fun with this. There could have been more levels but for someone new to programming it should be plenty.”

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Originally posted 2017-09-01 09:56:07.

Alice

June 6, 2019 by

Descriptions

Alice is designed to teach programming theory.

Designed to encouraging storytelling, unlike most other programming languages Users can place objects from Alice’s gallery into the virtual world that they have imagined.

Program by dragging and dropping tiles that represent logical structures.Manipulate Alice’s camera and lighting to make further enhancements.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

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Alice is a 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.

Suitable for Key Stage 3 + Alice is a FREE a teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming.

It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games.

In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

In Alice’s interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language.

Alice is conjoined with its IDE. There is no syntax to remember. However, it supports the full object-based programming, event driven model of programming.

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Originally posted 2017-08-31 09:58:15.

Ollie & Sphero : Toys & Games

June 6, 2019 by

Description

“We create connected toys, fusing emerging technology with the latest innovations in robotics to offer a new kind of open play experience. With our smart robots and open software we hope to inspire the next generation of inventors and programmers”

The ingenious free app is packed full of thrilling multiplayer games, programmable tricks and stunts. So get building your own perilous ramps and raceways and prepare to unleash this reckless robotic adrenaline-junkie..

Sphero Ollie, the cylindrical and bad-ass bigger brother of the original Sphero. It may look like something pinched from the set of a Tron film; but this futuristic, app-controlled robot is set to usher in a new, adrenaline-fuelled driving experience. o.

Unleash a futuristic, app-controlled adrenaline junkie
Travels at a blistering 6.3 metres per second (14mph!)
Bluetooth connectivity up to 30 metres, let it roll free
60 glorious minutes of driving time on a single charge

We created the SPRK program because we believe play is a powerful teacher. Whether you’re an educator or a parent, SPRK lessons give kids a fun crash course in programming while sharpening their skills in math and science. Download the free lessons or see what teachers are saying about Sphero in the classroom on twitter. – See more

We create connected toys – but that’s not all. By fusing technology with robotics, our toys are teaching and inspiring tomorrow’s inventors and innovators. Programming isn’t easy, but you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to give kids a strong foundation. All you need is a Sphero. – see more..

Unrivalled manoeuvrability, able to turn on a dime
Spin, drift, and flip with app-powered tricks
Effortlessly leaps off ramps and gets some serious air
Rugged on the outside, incredibly smart on the inside

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Originally posted 2017-08-30 09:58:51.

RoboZZle: iPad & iPhone

June 6, 2019 by

Description

Robozzle is a social puzzle game which teaches programming. Using only a few simple commands, teach the robot to repeat various pasterns in a tree, follow a linked list, or count in binary.

Robozzle is great for puzzle solvers. With hundreds of hours of game play, this is one that you won’t be putting down soon.

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This free download includes the tutorial and 15 puzzles.

To unlock all the puzzles and online features you can use the In-App-Purchase store within the game.

Puzzles range from fiendishly fun to excruciatingly difficult.

Don’t worry, if you get stuck you can simply skip the puzzle.

With an online account you can track which puzzles you have solved and sync with the original web version of Robozzle.

Robozzle is user-driven. The database of over 1,000 puzzles grows daily with unique challenges

After you solve a puzzle, vote on its difficulty and creativity so others can find the best puzzles out there

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Originally posted 2017-08-28 09:56:23.

Scratch : Download

June 5, 2019 by Paul

Description

Scratch is great for students of all ages. I like the use of drag and drop. The colourful layout makes it interactive and easy for all students to grasp quickly.

The online community is vast and very knowledgeable. There are many tutorials for scratch as well as many pre defined resources to give students a head start.

To download and install Scratch click here. To play online (without having to download it) click here.

Check out my review of the best Chromebooks for education for an easy way to play Scratch online.

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The Scratch Wiki is a collaboratively-written wiki available for free that provides information about the Scratch programming language and its website, history, and phenomena surrounding it. The wiki is supported by the Scratch Team, but is primarily written by Scratchers. The Scratch Wiki is a popular source of information for scripts and tutorials, and it continues to grow as Scratchers use it as their primary source of information.

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Scratch 2 is designed to support screen sizes 1024 x 768 or larger. projects to the Scratch 2 website.

If your computer doesn’t meet these requirements, you can try downloading and installing Scratch 1.4, which you can still use to share

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Scratch is a programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others around the world. In the process of designing and programming Scratch projects, young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively

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You can install the Scratch 2.0 editor to work on projects without an internet connection. This version will work on Mac, Windows, and some versions of Linux (32 bit).

The MIT Scratch Team and collaborators are researching how people use and learn with Scratch (for an introduction, see Scratch: Programming for All). Find out more aboutScratch research and statistics about Scratch.

I encourage you to try either the online or installed version of Scratch. There is a wealth of resources and a huge community to help you and students of all ages learn computer programming.

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Originally posted 2017-08-26 09:57:29.

Udemy C++ : Android

June 5, 2019 by

Description

This course is good for beginners, start writing programs in C++, taught by Jeremy Siek, professor at the University of Colorado. No prior knowledge of C++ is assumed.

Like the textbook, the course quickly dives into problem solving and making use of the C++ standard library, including strings, vectors, and lists. The emphasis is on teaching you the parts of C++ that you will most likely need in your day-to-day programming.

This course is Part 1 of a planned two-part sequence. Part 1 covers the first seven chapters of Accelerated C++, in particular, Chapters 0 through 6. The course consists of six videos of 50-60 minutes each.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

– Organizing data and using sequential containers
– Using library algorithms
– Code Examples

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

– Working with strings and if statements
– Looping and working with batches of data
– Organizing programs

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Originally posted 2017-08-22 09:57:09.

CodecademyCode Hour :

June 4, 2019 by

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This iOS app by Codecademy is great for older students key stage 3+.

This FREE app gets you started by introducing the basic concepts behind the apps on your phone and the websites you visit. You’ll learn to understand the basic structure of code when you see it.

I really like Code Hour it is a perfect introduction to programming and learn the concepts you need to know to expand your knowledge.

You can also Learn HTML&CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Python, Ruby and PHP with Codecademy.

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JUST GET STARTED: Code Hour is the best way to go from zero to programming. We show you easy examples of code and you learn how it works and powers the web.

TAP TO TRAIN: Use your iPhone or iPad for what it’s good for – quick, fun exercises on the go. Program when you get home and stay fresh by reviewing on the go.

APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN: Make a webpage with your own photo, bio, and more and share it with your friends.

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CREATE THE FUTURE: Programming underpins apps, websites, games, and more. Learn to create them all with Codecademy!

Learn to code interactively, for free, Students and teachers can track their learning and progress.

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Originally posted 2017-08-21 09:57:38.

Frozen

June 4, 2019 by

Description

This is a lovely introduction to programming. Students can chose to see the real code that they create whilst moving “code Blocks” into the correct order.

Every step is explained and a visual representation of the code is played out using , Anna and Elsa character from Frozen.

You will create snowflakes and patterns as you ice-skate and make a winter wonderland that you can then share with your friends!

Ages 8+

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The tutorial kicks off the second-annual Hour of Code campaign, a worldwide effort to broaden participation in computer science—especially by girls.

Titled “Artist with Anna & Elsa,” the tutorial is Code.org’s newest addition to its online learning platform, Code Studio.

During our Hour of Code, students will be guided through Code.org’s FROZEN workshop by a group of professional programmers.

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Originally posted 2017-08-20 09:56:04.