Code Academy
Code Academy Love this website that teaches you the basics of how to code. Have passed on to our new Computing GCSE class.
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#LWF11 David Braben – Frontier Developments & Legendary Games Designer
David is one of our greatest games designers, I was excited to hear him talk as I’ve been playing his games since the 80s! What motivates kids today? Fame, money, instant gratification. Not hard work and days of graft. So are today’s kids doomed? Games are a great weapon for education, as Dawn greatly pre-empted. Games…
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Kodu Game Lab – 3D Games Design for School
Kodu is a new game programming language / tool from Microsoft. It has had a very low-key launch, I came across it as it was featured in the excellent Edge Magazine last month. Kodu is initially available to the public on X-Box Live Marketplace for about £3.50. I have been fortunate enough to be allowed…
Scratch
I came across the excellent Scratch programming tool via an interesting discussion on Classroom2.0. I’m planning on investigating it a little more in the near future, there are a wealth of mathematical possibilities for it from algebra, logic, geometry, probability etc etc etc. However I’ve been thinking of a quick way in to it for…