App Building Workshops

As well as our regular coding lessons, First Coding also provide weekend app building sessions for people ages between 8 and 80 who have an idea for an app but…

Online Teaching Resources

First Coding is very happy to reveal that after a summer of hard work our teaching resources are now online and available. Our resource packs are a subscription based online…

Coding Competition Winners

The Scratch coding competition that was run over the summer holidays has now finished and I have had great fun judging the entries. After failing to find suitable competition to…

Retro Gaming Workshops

First Coding will now be running two Retro Gaming coding workshops this month. They're being held at The Old Fire Station in Salt Lane, Salisbury and each one costs just…

Birthday Party

This week saw First Coding host its very first children's party. The parents were looking to host a party with a difference and approached me to see what I could do…

Water Quality Monitoring

In today's sessions we were looking at how we could use the Microbit to measure water quality. One idea was to use the light sensor, shining a light through the…

A New Podcast

As part of the teaching resource subscription package, I've started a series of podcasts covering a multitude of topics designed to help teachers and educators. As a little taster, here…

A Musical Challenge

I set a challenge recently to see if pupils could make a simple note sequencer whereby you load notes into a loop and the Scratch programme  cycles through the sequence, playing…