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…
INVENT – A Monthly Makers’ Meet Up
If you're looking for a creative outlet, or need inspiration or help with a project you're working on, then you might be interested to know that I'm starting a free…
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…
Summer Holiday Workshops
The first of the summer holiday workshops have now been confirmed. If your son or daughter would like a challenge over the summer, or would like a taster of the…
Classes
As our half term workshops come to an end, there's no need to worry. First Coding will continue to run after-school and weekend classes for the remainder of the school year.
Computer Science: Real World Talks
I was kindly asked to talk at the Wessex Partnership's Computer Science Real World talk this week. I talked about how the benefits of personal projects and how taking the…
STEM Talks
It was an absolute pleasure to talk to the sixth formers at Bishop Wordsworth's yesterday about computing as part of their STEM day. I talked about a number of my…
Adventures in Coding
The presentation I give to KS2 children is all about how programming isn't just restricted to the computer in your home, it can be applied in many other exciting areas.…
Minecraft and Code
This week saw me visit the Bett Show which is an educational tech exhibition held in London's ExCel Centre. The show is massive to say the least and in order…