on 20 March 2018
Here are the activities that each group will be working on today:
(If you are new to CoderDojo and have little or no previous experience coding you can start in the Newcomer’s group. Talk to a leader if you are not sure what group you should be in.)
Newcomers
If you are new to CoderDojo and new to computer programming this is where you start:
Scratch 1 (Beginner)
Hangout Animation
Today we will work on the Hangout project. Click on the link below and follow the instructions in the videos.
Scratch 2 (Intermediate & Advanced)
Get your game ready for today’s ‘Show and Tell’
Put the final touches to your Top-down Shooter game. We will do a ‘show and tell’ in second half of today’s session.
If you need to refer to the videos for the top down shooter game here they are:
video for part 1
video for part 2
video for part 3
video for part 4
video for part 5
video for part 6
video for part 7
Web Development (HTML, CSS & JavaScript)
Please add your Khan Academy profile to CoderDojo:
- Go to https://www.khanacademy.org/coaches
- type in the following code:
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Continue working on:
Khan Academy Introduction to HTML/CSS: Making webpages
If you are finished Khan Academy Introduction to HTML/CSS: Making webpages:
Learn flexbox layout
Learn flexbox layout with Flexbox Froggy
Build your own website
Follow these instructions to set up a web address and a place on the internet for your website:
1. Set-up domain name and hosting
2. Guidelines for building your own website
Introduction to Robotics
This session is run by Nathalie. An introduction to robotics using mBot robot kits and a block programming language called mBlock which is similar to Scratch.
Raspberry Pi (with Microcontrollers and other cool stuff)
A collaborative group exploring how computers can interact with the outside world through a range of sensors and controllers. Primarily we’ll be using the Raspberry Pi (http://raspberrypi.org) computer in conjunction with Arduinos (http://arduino.cc) and along the way we’ll learn about Python, C and C++ programming, digital and analogue electronics and about working together.
Electronics, Microcontrollers and Raspberry Pi session information