BWS Summer Coding Competition
First Coding is very pleased to announce the first of many coding competitions this summer. Today we have launched the Bishop Wordworth's School competition and it's open to coding club…
Python School Groups
We continue this week with our popular Python school groups, looking at clever ways to code text-based Choose Your Own Adventure games. Already there are some great ideas forming and…
Scratch Game Designers
A big shout out to the Scratch beginners group at Shrewton Primary! A great online coding club session today that resulted in some fabulous ideas from the children. We look…
New School Clubs
New online school clubs started this week. Over the next six weeks we'll be looking at clever ways to program in Scratch before making the transition to Python. For the…
Printing for the NHS
The current lockdown situation has seen all First Coding classes move online for the foreseeable future. As there are no trips to the classrooms or our Salisbury offices being made,…
A Puzzle Challenge
It's challenge time! First Coding asked a couple of game studios to set a challenge and they didn't disappoint. No coding experience is required for these challenges, it's open to…
Game Design Video Series – Part 3
In this week's game design video we finish up on our Scratch game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below to learn how to code the paper aeroplanes that the player…
Game Design Video Series – Part 2
It's target time! In this episode we'll be looking at how the random targets in the game are coded. Every Friday they’ll be a new video showing how we make…
Game Design Video Series: Part 1
Welcome to the first episode of our Scratch game design series. Every Friday they'll be a new video showing how we make the game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below…
We’ve Broken Your Software, Sir
I was recently interviewed by the nice people over at TeachPitch. They wanted to find out more about the projects behind my TED talk and discover how I engage my pupils in…