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Topic outline
- General
- WEEK 1 - MANUAL AND VISUAL CODING
WEEK 1 - MANUAL AND VISUAL CODING
1. ICE BREAKERS AND TEAM BUILDING CODING ACTIVITIES
Welcome to Scottish Coding Academy!
Coding Blocks activity is fantastic to start your adventure with coding. The brightly coloured wooden blocks are strung together with elastic and are cut allowing them to be locked and angled to make various shapes and figures.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Let's make some interesting shapes
2. Choose one shape that you want to present to everybody together with your name
3. Explain what do you like about your shape
4. Let's find out what other shapes were created by your colleagues
Now you know how to create you own shapes - well done! Let's follow coding cards and build variety of shapes and patterns.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Follow your Coding Card and create shapes according to the age group you are in. Start from the beginning!Enigma is a coding / decoding game developing your communication skills and allowing you to "think outside the box".
INSTRUCTIONS:
To Code your message:
1. Write your short message on the Coding Pad
2. Code your message using Coding Card
3. Share your code with the other student / group
To Decode the message:
1. Write the message on the Coding Pad
2. Decode the message using Coding Card
3. Provide a feedback to the other student / group2. COMPUTER EXERCISES
Did you know that you can access more exciting exercises at home? Find out how to use our e-learning system.
Let's discover the world of visual coding and see some examples.
Let's log in to Scratch!
3. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
- WEEK 2 - ROBOT AND VISUAL PROGRAMMING
WEEK 2 - ROBOT AND VISUAL PROGRAMMING
1. ICE BREAKERS AND TEAM BUILDING CODING ACTIVITIES
Big Trak's is a moon vehicle that requires your coding skills to move! Use its keypad to type in commands.
In Scottish Coding Academy we use mind games like Rush Hour 8+ to introduce you to logical thinking and problem solving. They also help stimulate crucial brain development in logic, visual/spatial, math, language and reasoning which are some of the main skills required by coders.
Robot Mouse (Jack) was designed to engage you in science, technology, engineering and maths. Explore early coding and programming concepts with "Jack" the robot mouse and perform a sequence of steps.
INSTRUCTIONS:1. Let's make Jack to follow some of your simple moves.
2. Choose some objects e.g. toys, blocks and build a maze for Jack.
3. Program Jack to go through the obstacles to find cheese.
4. Create a challenge for other student and solve their challenges!
2. COMPUTER EXERCISES
In this presentation you will learn how to use one of the most popular visual programming language Scratch!
Introduction to Scratch from scratch.mit.edu - pdf file
In this exercise you animate the letters of your name, initials, or favorite word.
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
- WEEK 3 - LOGICAL GAMES & PYTHON CODING
WEEK 3 - LOGICAL GAMES & PYTHON CODING
1. ICE BREAKERS AND TEAM BUILDING CODING ACTIVITIES
Bits and Bytes is an invaluable tool to assist trainers at Scottish Coding Academy to teach you the fundamentals of computer coding where everyone have fun playing but at the same time.
With Creative Puzzles each cubed puzzle brings it's own challenge allowing you to follow coding cards to resolve more complex issues. With this fantastic 6 Cubed Puzzles activity you will work together to resolve the issue and present the results afterwards.
Complex Board Games like Chess, Draughts / Checkers or Backgammon has been persuasively linked with improving concentration, problem-solving, critical, original and creative thinking – and even mathematical abilities. They have remained popular because they are simple enough to grasp as a learner and require a good deal of strategy to play at a higher level, so that everyone can enjoy them. Board games give you a hobby that you can enjoy virtually any time on the computer. It is a far better hobby than mindless video games, or watching cartoons.
2. COMPUTER EXERCISES
- A realistic coding experience combined with visual composition.
Create a website using HTML and CSS.
Share Code in Real-time with other students, or developers.
Coding in real time via web browser.
3. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
In this project you will edit real live website.
4. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
In this exercise you can choose from variety of external training sources.
Innovative way of learning programming with support of the international tutors, or individually at you own pace.
CodeBeautify is developed for Beautify, Minify, Convert your code/data for your expected result.
- WEEK 4 - WEBSITE BUILDING AND HTML CODING
WEEK 4 - WEBSITE BUILDING AND HTML CODING
1. COMPUTER EXERCISES - GAMES DEVELOPMENT - HTML GAMES
Let's create a HTML Snake Game!
Let's create a HTML Tetris Game!
Let's create a HTML Breakout Game!
2. COMPUTER EXERCISES - WEBSITE / BLOG DEVELOPMENT
3. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
- WEEK 5 - CODING CHALLENGE AND PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES
WEEK 5 - CODING CHALLENGE AND PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES
1. FINALISE YOUR HTML GAMES / BLOG / WEBSITE
Make changes and improve your projects.
2. CODING CHALLENGE
3. PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES
Thank you so much for taking part in our 5 week training! Now is the time to have some fun.