A little bit about code...
Some of the most successful people in the world today started out at novice computer programmers. Coding is an amazing skill that makes you think and problem solve. What if more people knew how to code? What if schools started teaching coding at a young age? There would be a guaranteed increase technological innovation, kids would start thinking on new levels, creativity would increase exponentially!!! - well, in my opinion. Code is the foreign language of our time.
Check out this great Youtube clip about coding. Below are also some great games to get students thinking in a coding way.
Programming Games for Students (or adults)
- Scratch from MIT
- Small Basic by Microsoft
- Alice - Learn Object Oriented Programming in a fun game
- http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ - a great site for problem solving and learning the ins and outs or the python computer language. It's tough but you feel really smart when you get one. This would be good for Middle School students and up
- http://hackety.com/ another cool game to learn Ruby on Rails
- http://railsforzombies.org/ Learn Ruby on Rails in a fun way. This is for high school students and up because of the Zombies.
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