Learning Code
If you ever wanted to try your hand at learning something new, certainly Coding can be a great place to start. It’s a wonderful opportunity to increase your skills and the possibilities. A major incentive would hopefully to start a new career, or help out with a game or app that you’ve always wanted to create.
Coding is not the easiest thing to do, but like anything you are trying for the first time, if you put in some time and effort, it can be very rewarding. One website that is trying to do its best and encourage you to try coding for at least an hour before you make a permanent decision on it is: http://code.org/. In fact they’ve created an amazing video with some pretty successful people to help try and convince you.
On the website you’ll find some encouraging videos and tutorials, all of them showcasing a different type of code and at different levels. Exercises that really help your skills evolve and that are relevant with what’s going on in the world of computer and electronics today. Below you see a list of just some of the great exercise available at your fingertips.
Build your first computer program
Learn the basic concepts of Computer Science with drag and drop programming. This is a game-like, self-directed tutorial starring video lectures by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies. Learn repeat-loops, conditionals, and basic algorithms. Available in 34 languages.
Introduction to JavaScript
Learn the basics of JavaScript programming while creating fun drawings with your code. Do it on your own or with your class!
Learning Python
Choose from 3 activities designed to give you your first experience programming. For example, use the programming language Python to build a chatbot called "Eliza". Can she fool your friends into think she's a human not a computer? This can be done in either a student-guided or teacher-facilitated form and comes with all notes and solutions.
Create an iPhone game in an hour
Tried programming already, if so learn to develop an iPhone game in an hour! Guides to help you through the process will get you on your way to coding, testing and playing your game. After you’ve finished it, share your game with friends and family via Facebook.
Develop and build your knowledge quickly with guides and the best part is, you can do all of this in the browser window. No software download required. Login and create an account to take advantage of greater lesson plans and get up to date news.
After checking out a few of these lessons, don’t forget to come in and take advantage of the Raspberry Pi and Arduino kits we have available in the Hub. Those kits are a great tool to help strengthen that knowledge and take you to higher levels. In addition, try some app or game development on our driverless PC.
Have fun!!
Greg
2 thoughts on “Learning Code”
Hey! That’s a super idea .. Learn Code Power and what it all about
The Library can introduce it to you and make it so simple and easy, just because our Toronto Public Library service is so great that way, with the Digital Innovation Hub always thinking of ways to help us all out
Learn, coding languages HTML and CCS for website building and even Python for the Raspberry Pi and coding for Arduino to make these devices do some pretty amazing things, all available to use with hands on experience classes with simple lessons to program it yourself. Just when you thought you could never do that, your Digital Innovation Hubs will show you .. Hey !.. You Can! And you will amaze yourself.
Our Toronto Public Library’s Digital Innovation Hubs, the place to go,always doing exciting stuff to make us have fun learning the tech of today .. They just keeping getting better and better, making tech accessible to everybody .. and developing new and exciting classes & programs.
Click on this link below to learn more and the fun stuff available as a FREE service at our fantastic Digital Innovation Hubs
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Digital-Innovation-Hub/416909498420527
.. Yes FREE classes, to show you the fun you have been missing out on .
. Sign Up for these classes, because at the cost of FREE and a limited number of seats they will be a “SOLD OUT” posting pretty fast and you don’t want to miss out ..
Thanks Greg, for informing us of the other fun ways to learn code and reminding everyone about the Library’s Raspberry Pi and Arduino kits everyone has the opportunity to try their hand at coding with just with a library card and asking. Get on-board and sign up NOW !
Coding Power .. that’s where it’s at !! Have some FUN !! You’re Genius ! You are so Tech .. Now you can write code too ! Awesome ! Get empowered ! Sign up ! Show Your Magic Super Power .. Get into Coding!
Great post Greg. Thanks!