Celebrating Computer Science Education Week with the Hour of Code

This week is Computer Science Education Week! CSEW takes place this week to honor Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneer in the field of computer science and who was born on December 9, 1906.


To celebrate Computer Science Education Week, we will be participating in code.org's "Hour of Code" program that has taught almost 70 million students world wide how to write computer code to program a computer. Listen to President Obama deliver the opening remarks for the 2014 "Hour of Code" challenge.


To get started, go to studio.code.org/join/JXHMQX and join Ms. Kline's "Hour of Code" class. After you have joined Ms. Kline's "Hour of Code" class, you will be in your "dashboard" area and you will be able to see all of the coding classes that are available to you. For the Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week, you may do either the "Coding with Anna or Elsa" of Frozen or the "Hour of Code" with Angry Birds project.

Remember the code.org advice: "Ask 3 then ask me". Try to problem solve with your table team, then ask Ms. Kline if you still can't figure it out. Have fun!

Tier III Vocabulary:
code
program
computer programming

Create a Video Game Using Tynker Coding

You have already learned how to program with the visual programming editor, Blockly, during Code.org's K-8 Computer Science Course. Every Spurgeon technology student has completed the entire course and received a certificate...great job!

This week, you will begin a coding project using Tynker. This is another web-based visual programming editor like Blockly and Scratch. You will group the coding blocks to create a game just like you did with your Code.org projects.

To begin your Tynker coding projects: https://www.tynker.com/login

1. Go to Tynker.com/schools
2. Click the green "Sing in" button at the top right of the screen.
3. Click the blue "Student" button to sign in.
4. Click the red "Sign in with Google" button.
5. Click the blue "Accept" button.
6. Enter the class code that Ms. Kline wrote on the board.
7. Click sign in
8. Click the green "Go to Class" button
9. Click the orange "Start Lesson 1" button
10. Don't forget to sign out when you are done!

You will now complete 8 Tynker lessons!

Flappy Birthday Code.org! Create Your Very Own "Flappy Bird" Game & Share it With Friends!

Code.org is 1 Year Old!

 
Celebrate by creating your very own "Flappy Bird" game and share it with your friends!

Use the amazing Blockly coding skills you have developed over the past several weeks to create your own version of the popular video game, "Flappy Bird" and share your newly-created game with your friends.

After you have completed the lessons teaching you how to program your Flappy Bird game, you will create your own game, just the way you like it! When you are done, you will copy the URL of your game from the address bar in your browser. Paste that URL in Ms. Kline's Flappy Bird Google Doc so that your friends will be able to play your version of Flappy Bird, too.

You can also create your own Google Doc and share it with your friends. 

Don't forget to have fun!!