Reply to: Year of code

[darmstadt]

It would have been a lot cheaper just to provide a link to this page: 10 places where anyone can learn to code | TED Blog

[darmstadt]

i prefer

'¡I%e!c0ĄJ¥eìo0¸ËefMs0µKcÊIs0´Ê¢1éo'.split(0).map(s=>{return s.split('').map(c=>{for(i=8,s='';i--;)s+=(c.charCodeAt(0)-33)&(1<<i)?'#':' ';return s;}).join('')}).join('\n')

or Brain**** - Hello World -

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[DimPrawn]

Is this the best way to start?

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10

i prefer

'¡I%e!c0ĄJ¥eìo0¸ËefMs0µKcÊIs0´Ê¢1éo'.split(0).map(s=>{return s.split('').map(c=>{for(i=8,s='';i--;)s+=(c.charCodeAt(0)-33)&(1<<i)?'#':' ';return s;}).join('')}).join('\n')

[Sysman]

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

No he is expected to speak it instead.

A stint mucking out the cows would do some of these politicos good.

--
Farmer Giles

[darmstadt]

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

With the current bunch of politicos, both ends

[vwdan]

I support the concept because for years I've moaned about how IT may as well be rebranded "Doing office work with a computer", but like everything else it's half baked and ill thought out. Last month I built a virtual desktop infrastructure for a school so they had a sandbox to play with - they had never ever used most of the things they asked me to include...

[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 ...

[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.

[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.

[d000hg]

qh

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

[vetran]

1 IN 6 PEOPLE DO
NOT HAVE BASIC
DIGITAL SKILLS

as few as that??

from my users its about 50%

[quackhandle]

qh

[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.

[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.

[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.