My friend Eric is a technology teacher at a school in the Richmond area and I were discussing the importance of teaching kids to code. The website code.org goes into it.
I thought I should write up a quick tutorial on ways for kids (or grown ups) to code while:
- Having fun
- Creating
- Learning
- Sharing their work
- Building off of each others work
My tutorial utilizes two technologies:
jsfiddle : This web platform allows you to program in javascript and see your results. You can share and build off existing code.
Processingjs.org : This javascript library allows you to cool stuff like: this, this, or this. It is a powerful library that has great documentation.
So, here are my basic first instructions:
START:
Go here: http://jsfiddle.net/n2yUg/21/
EDITING:
So, in this example, you can change the line of code:
processing.background(224); |
to be:
processing.background(255,0,0); |
VIEWING:
Hit RUN, and you will get a red background.
SHARING:
Then, you can use the SHARE button and you can see options to use Twitter or just send a link without any code:
So, I think you could learn a whole lot from these two things combined.
Hope this helps!