Students at all grade levels can code!
Coding makes students “Future Ready.” Think about how many businesses need coders! If a business has a website, or an app-- they NEED a coder!
Anything that uses computers, (cars, soda machines, TVs, other electronics) all need coders!
More and more coders are needed every year. Currently there are not enough to fill available jobs.
Code.org
- Beginning block code
- Teaches basics
- Uses characters to get kids interested (Frozen, Star Wars, Minecraft, Angry Birds…)
Scratch
- Basic Block Coding
- Open source
- Create stories and animations
Hopscotch
- ios app (iPad)
- videos on Youtube to help
Tynker
- Block coding to Java Script
- Personalized path for every child
- Earn badges
Swift Playground
- iPad app to teach Apple’s app coding
- Basic to complicated
- Uses puzzles to teach concepts
- FULL curriculum that leads to coding in XCode
Code Combat
- Multiplayer game students type code to advance through levels
- Works with several coding languages
Code Avengers
- Course around real code where you build real products
- Tutorials (videos)
- Works with HTML and JavaScript
- See the work and effect in real time
Code Academy
- Build real world examples
- Ex: Build flipboard homepage
Earsketch
- Code with music
- Works similar to Garageband
BitsBox
- Mail service
- Monthly boxes with coding activities
- Asks you to build apps on virtual tablet
- Sphero- robotic balls
- Includes coding
- Lightning lab- can block code
- Tickle- simpler block coding that allows you to work with Sphero as well as other coding type products
- Dash and Dot
- Robots you code with using apps:
- Blockly- app for block coding
- Wonder- teaches coding principles through lessons
- Osmo (works with iPads- not Android)
- Block coding
- Base and block that covers camera + blocks
- Leveled activities
- Uses real blocks
- Words, numbers/math, tangrams, masterpiece (art), Newton (physics), Monster (preschool- monster character, draw stuff on board), Pizza Company (characters asking for certain pizza-- build with pieces), Coding (move Awbie with block pieces)
- Ozobot