Summer Holiday Workshops

The summer holidays are nearly here, which can only mean that it's the return of the First Coding holiday workshops! All hosted via Zoom, the workshops promise to help inspire…

App Design Talks

First Coding was approached by Satchel, the people behind the Show My Homework platform and asked to host a series of talks designed to show pupils how to develop applications…

App Building Competition

Children who have previously attended our Android App Building workshops may be pleased to hear that the team over at App Inventor (the platform we use to build our apps) will…

Toy Car App

This is such a great idea! A Year 5 pupil has built this little application in Scratch that has been packaged up to run on Android devices. When you place…

Summer Workshops

We are gearing up for a creative summer once again and will be announcing our holiday coding workshops shortly. Back by popular demand will also be the App Building workshop…

A Summer of Workshops

The summer workshops may not be over yet but I'm already so impressed with the standard of work being produced. Whether it's the young coders who are giving Scratch a…

App Building Workshops

This summer's app building workshops will involve making a simple pirate game. The aim is to defend your island from random boats trying to invade. As the game progresses, the…

We’re in the News!

I am always looking for ways to encourage children and teens when is comes to applying what they learn in our courses. Hopefully this article and my app that features…

Barcode Battles

First Coding can help breathe new life into an old laptop or tablet. This week we've been developing apps for Kindle Fires using block-based coding. The game is a really…