I wrote in an earlier post about how children, when taught programming at primary school, may be using the language Scratch. Now I am back with another example of what it can be used for with an animated Christmas greeting to you. Enjoy!
Click on the green flag to start the animation and turn the volume up!
A little while ago I wrote about my computing education growing up in the 1980s where I learned CECIL before progressing on to BASIC. Now, some 40 years later, I am discovering what computing children are being taught.
I had decided that once I retired, I wanted to give something back to the community, and using my core computing skills seemed like an obvious place to start.
I’d seen that the Raspberry Pi Foundation ran something called Code Club which aims to teach development skills to children from about aged five and up. These are mostly run … Read the rest