Year of code

[administrator]

KUATB

Their web site was working then...

[DirtyDog]

I never saw what scratch was for. You add a cat to the screen and make it go meeoww 10 times. Not exactly enthralling for a kid with an XBox360.

Remove the cat, you add in your own pictures. You add in your own sounds and backgrounds. You make it respond to different things happening - key presses, colour detection, events being raised...

Have a look at Adventures in Raspberry Pi or Scratch Programming in Easy Steps for examples of what you can do. Look at the examples on the MIT website. Have a flick through the examples in the MagPi.

The sense of achievement a child gets from building there own thing is immeasurable compared to being a passive consumer.

[d000hg]

Yes but your Dad obviously had an interest and his enthusiasm and knowledge was passed on to you to create that interest. A teacher who is stuffed to the gills with too much to do already is less likely to pass on that enthusiasm.

However in maths/science, there is a real use for simple programming to solve problems... hence in real life anyone working with data is likely to have to know a bit of coding even if it's just some BASIC or FORTRAN or even Excel macros. Many subject teachers in those areas could/should know a little bit, I'd suggest.

[doodab]

However in maths/science, there is a real use for simple programming to solve problems... hence in real life anyone working with data is likely to have to know a bit of coding even if it's just some BASIC or FORTRAN or even Excel macros. Many subject teachers in those areas could/should know a little bit, I'd suggest.

I'd hope a maths teacher who hasn't learned any programming as part of their degree would be a rare thing these days.

[quackhandle]

qh

[vetran]

1 IN 6 PEOPLE DO
NOT HAVE BASIC
DIGITAL SKILLS

as few as that??

from my users its about 50%

[d000hg]

qh

Lame. The minister for agriculture isn't expected to have spent time shovelling cowtulip.

[doodab]

Lame. The minister for agriculture isn't expected to have spent time shovelling cowtulip.

No but you'd hope he knows what it smells like and which end it comes out of.

[Bunk]

Tories' 'Year of Code' boss Lottie Dexter can't code | Political Scrapbook

Watching the Director of the #YearofCode was like seeing Jen of the #ITCrowd being asked what IT is.

[AtW]

Tories' 'Year of Code' boss Lottie Dexter can't code | Political Scrapbook

Her brother is allegedly a blood splatter specialist for the Met, so if I were you I'd keep my mouth shut ...