Hour of Code™ 2017

The Hour of Code™ learning event officially takes place during Computer Science Week Dec. 4th-8th, 2017.  “The ‘Hour of Code™’ is a nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week [csedweek.org] and Code.org [code.org] to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming.”  Check out these video introductions.

More resources and tutorials can be found at the bottom of this post.  You do not need a login or account to try any of the tutorials we will be using at school.

Beginner:

Kodable Hour of Code – definitely beginner! Choose “Play Without Saving”

Candy Quest from Tynker -“Design your own candy troll and go on a multi-level quest for candy using code in this Hour of Code activity!” Click Get Started to begin

Disney’s Moana Wayfinding with Hour of Code from Code.org

https://hourofcode.org/moana

 

Infinity Play Lab from Code.org

 

 

 

Star Wars Hour of Code from Code.org

Code with Anna and Elsa from code.org
*Video Introduction

Intermediate:

Minecraft Hour of  Code – Design Animals from code.org – Choose the new game or play one of your favorites

 

Inside HQ – Made w/ Code – Help Riley from Disney Pixar’s Inside Out solve some of life’s little problems

Star Wars Hour of Code – JavaScript  from code.org

 

 

 

Google’s Made With Code Projects – choose any project to complete including a LED dress!

 

CodeMonkey -Program a monkey to catch bananas.

Lightbot – Solve puzzles using programming logic.  Teaches basics, procedures and loops.

Beginning JavaScript by Codemoji

 

Brick Breaker from Tynker

 

 

 

Basketball from Codesters (Python block coding) 

 

 

Advanced:

Choose at least one beginner or intermediate activity to complete, then you can choose an advanced option.

Flappy Bike from Codesters (Python)  – “In this activity you’ll create a game with player controls! use key-presses to keep your bike in the air while avoiding obstacles!”

Toxic Jungle – Python from Tynker “Learn Python in this Hour of Code activity. Save the floating islands from the toxic haze by solving fun coding puzzles”

Counter Hack – JavaScript from Tynker  “Learn JavaScript in this Hour of Code activity. Hack your way through the system by deleting viruses, solving mazes, and navigating portals to save the computer”

 

Hour of Drawing with Code – Kahn Academy -This hour teaches you to program using JavaScript by creating various snowmen.

 

Frozen Fractals (Python Turtle) from Grok Learning- Hour of Code tutorials using Python.

 

Try other tutorials from Grok Learning – Attempt  Is Eliza Human? for the most challenge.

Codesters Hour of Code – Intro to Python – Choose from various activities and levels.  Self-guided.

 

Other Resources:

Learn an Hour of Code – http://code.org/learn – Explore many, many more options for learning programming from introductory lessons to more advanced.

Tynker’s Hour of Code

– Try one of the beginner options for Hour of Code like Candy Quest or Obstacle Course. Click “All Grades” to see all of the options.

Beyond an Hour of Code -http://code.org/learn/beyond –  These take more than an hour, but learn how to program using JavaScript Python, Ruby, Lego Mindstorms, Sparkfun Arduino and much, much more!