We’ve recently released a series of new Code Club videos on our YouTube channel . These range from advice on setting up your own Code Club to testimonials from kids and volunteers. To offer a little more information on the themes of each video, we’ll be releasing #CharityTuesday blog posts for each, starting with the reason for it all: the kids.
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#CharityTuesday: What do kids say about Code Club?
What could you do in an hour? Perhaps you could watch an episode of a TV show, have a luxurious bath, or even tidy the house a bit! But what if you could spend an hour learning a skill that might influence the future of your career, and perhaps your whole life
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Hour of Code 2016
IEEE Spectrum Replace Lego's $190 Intelligent Brick with MIT's Scratch and a $40 Raspberry Pi IEEE Spectrum I wondered if it was possible to use a Raspberry Pi to replace the handheld controller, taking on the role of an Intelligent Brick. This would have some advantages. With programs being created on the same device used to control Lego constructions, it ..
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Replace Lego’s $190 Intelligent Brick with MIT’s Scratch and a $40 Raspberry Pi – IEEE Spectrum
Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Releases Free Learn To Code With Scratch e-Book Geeky Gadgets If you are looking to get started coding then a new free e-book which has been released by the Raspberry Pi Foundation as part of their MagPi Essentials selection might be worth more investigation and downloading. The PDF eBook has been created to …
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Raspberry Pi Releases Free Learn To Code With Scratch e-Book – Geeky Gadgets
Scratch is the world-leading visual programming language, created by the boffins at MIT . It’s designed to help kids of all ages learn about computer science within minutes
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Learn to code with Scratch with The MagPi’s latest e-book
This weekend Philip and I went to Dublin to attend CoderDojo Coolest Projects . We got to meet hundreds of brilliant young digital makers and amazing volunteers. CoderDojo Coolest Projects: a free tech event for the world’s youngest innovators, creators and entrepreneurs As the event kicked off the news broke that Tim Peake had landed safely back on Earth, which meant Philip had to make some last minute changes to his presentation… Ben Nuttall on Twitter “Who knows who this is?” “It’s Tim Peake” “Where is he?” “In space” “No – he’s back on Earth!”pic.twitter.com/elfNXcAwsX As we walked around the venue we grew more and more impressed by the projects on show
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CoderDojo Coolest Projects 2016
Lifehacker AppGameKit Is a Free Game Creation Toolset for the Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Plus, anything you make can be deployed to just about every platform out there, including the Raspberry Pi itself. If you're looking to mess around with making games on the Pi, AppGameKit seems like a step up from the built-in Scratch software, but …
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AppGameKit Is a Free Game Creation Toolset for the Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker
The Scratch programming language, developed at MIT, has become the cornerstone of computing education at the primary level. Running the Scratch environment well was an early goal for Raspberry Pi. Since early 2013 we’ve been working with Tim Rowledge, Smalltalk hacker extraordinaire. Tim has been beavering away, improving the Scratch codebase and porting it to newer versions of the Squeak virtual machine
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Scratch performance – feel the speed!
The Daily Dot You can buy the new Raspberry Pi Zero for just $5 The Daily Dot You can buy the Raspberry Pi Zero for just $5. Yes, that's right: Five bucks will buy you a computer capable of running applications like the learn-to-code program Scratch, and Minecraft, a popular world-building game. But the cheaper price point doesn …
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You can buy the new Raspberry Pi Zero for just $5 – The Daily Dot
Gizmodo Last Day of School: 8 Tech and Science Projects for Your Kids to Do This … Gizmodo Raspberry Pi is specifically built with teaching in mind. The default OS, Raspbian, comes with a visual programming application called Scratch, which helps kids build apps, but more importantly helps explain many of the key logical concepts found in ..
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Last Day of School: 8 Tech and Science Projects for Your Kids to Do This … – Gizmodo