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Knowledge base for Wizzie Wizzie Computer Coding Club
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Put together a list of challenges we can use with students #21

Open pablobm opened 5 years ago

pablobm commented 5 years ago

Add these to Wiki.

pablobm commented 5 years ago

@benzitohhh will do this.

benzitohhh commented 5 years ago

I added some Scratch challenges here: https://github.com/WizzieWizzie/howto/wiki/Coding-challenges

These are all from the "Coding for beginners using Scratch" book (Usborne).

Nothing earth-shatteringly original. And maybe a bit prescriptive just following the book.

But I found it helpful going through these examples, and thinking about them in terms of "challenges". I definitely think framing them this way ("can you make a game that does X?") could make them more interesting and appealing to the kids.

Also from a lazy teacher (and scratch-o-phobe) perspective, it's really nice to have the fully working example code.

Will try and add some python ones too.

@pablobm Do we have the Osborne python book ("Coding for beginners using Python")? If not, could we order some?

pablobm commented 5 years ago

@benzitohhh - Thanks for that! I think that's a great start. I agree framing those as challenges could be the way to go.

We don't have any Python books. I suspect that @madebydavid could get hold of one or two for testing?

benzitohhh commented 5 years ago

@pablobm ok great thanks

pablobm commented 5 years ago

@madebydavid - Get us copies of the Python book!