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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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I have been asked by a parent of a girl who was in CodeClub last year if there was anything more advanced for children at secondary schools. He said that his daughter really enjoyed it, and wanted to do more. So far, though,mI've not been able to find anything that might fit the bill. They are after something more formal, with the view to using it as part of an application for a scholarship to a private school as well.
I suggested asking the local universities about this, but I have a feeling that this is such a new topic area that there's not much available. I also suggested seeing if Microsoft, Google or Apple have anything that may help. What he doesn't want is his daughter sitting in her bedroom teaching herself software writing.
I was wondering if anyone here may have come across some kind of club/tutor/out of school organisation that can help.
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:30 pm |
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm Posts: 4141 Location: Exeter
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What language(s) have been taught in CodeClub and to what sort of level? My normal recommendation after people have completed a basic syntax level course is to head over to Project Euler ( http://projecteuler.net/) and have a look at some of the problems there, but that seems to run rather counter to what her parents want. Everything else I'm aware of is generally Microsoft Tech courses for people in industry etc.
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:41 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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In the first year, it's Scratch - which is a GUI-Lego like way of assembling code. In year 2 it moves on to HTM, and CSS, and into Python.
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:18 pm |
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm Posts: 6580 Location: Getting there
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Ooh, would be interested to talk about code club sometime. I've just started and done the first two weeks.
For stuff after code club there is code academy or whatever it's called. It starts fairly simple iirc.
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:26 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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First rule of CodeClub... 
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Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:35 am |
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 4876 Location: Newcastle
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It's not a bug, it's a feature
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Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:17 am |
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm Posts: 4955 Location: on the naughty step
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also , we don't care about warnings?
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Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:24 am |
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 4876 Location: Newcastle
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A warning is just a "to do", they are yellow for a reason, like post-it notes 
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Wed Sep 24, 2014 1:23 pm |
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