Coding 4 Children: Online Course

On Thursday 16th September, RR hosted an online course about coding entitled "Coding 4 Children" and delivered by "Kids&Codes" organisation. The targeted participants were young people between 8 and 12 years old from a refugee or migrant background. Prior to the event, the presenter shared the course slides in order to enable students prepare for the course in advance and during the course the participants did some simple exercises.

The course included the following points: introduction to programming / practice coding with different tools, introducing coding concepts using Scratch, coding simple project using Scratch, introducing how software and hardware work together using micro: bit circuit board & C2O2 robot, coding simple project using micro: bit circuit board (simulation), introducing apps design for android devices, coding simple app using MIT App Inventor environment.

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