helloworld.cc

This magazine is all about coding for kids - from the Code Club/Raspberry Pi foundation. Free for educators! See more here - https://helloworld.raspberrypi.org/helloworld

Here are some of the items I found of interest in it.

Issue 1

• Greenfoot - modern programming environment. Based on Java, comes with samples
• Quest - text based adventure game engine. More about design of the game.
• Project Quantum - coding related quizzes, testing understanding.
• BCS Scholarship Scheme (more) - help to become an IT/Computer teacher.
• Book/analysis - Stuck in the shallow end - Education, Race, and Computing “Students of color may be stuck on the educational 'shallow end' now, [Margolis] writes, but it is possible to end their segregation through systemic reform.”
• Projects done in Scratch and Python
  • projects - shapes
  • scratch code block images
  • python code
• My amazing castle - scratch project. example and My Make Believe Castle (old Mac program)
• Grok Learning - an alternative to trinket, with more a lesson based approach
• Scratch project to generate shapes, seems simple but builds up
• code-it - lots of useful bits from Phil Bagge
• snap - an alternative to scratch, looks very similar.
• Robots, lots of ideas - but want to do it with microbit...

Issue 2