Code and Programming
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or the last 6 weeks I have been teaching Arduino and Website programming as part of the Innovator in Communities program. I have had the opportunity to spend time teaching people who knew nothing about code and programming how to create amazing things!
For me, the best part of this is opening people's minds and curiosities to the possibilities of code. Computers and technology control our world, and once we learn to write code for ourselves we can begin to control objects around us. Participants in this course learned a variety of things ranging from making motors move with an Arduino microcontroller, to creating their own web pages using WordPress.
The world of code is so vast, but it only takes one interesting project for you to get inspired. A good place to start getting ideas on what you can create is Instructables. This website is filled with interesting projects and step-by-step instructions on how to create them!
If these projects have made you curious about what is possible, or you are looking for a place to learn, Toronto Public Library offers a variety of classes on how to begin to create, from web programming, to knitting.
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