Happy Hens
After learning that one of our young pupils recently bought some chickens for her garden, we set about designing a web page to advertise the eggs she was going to…
Half Term Certificates
It's been back to back workshops this half term. For all the younger coders I hand out little certificates for a job well done. Some of the games that are…
Young Coders’ Course
** NEW FOR 2019 - NOW INCLUDES LEARNING TO CODE WITH MINECRAFT ** First Coding will be running its popular Young Coders' course once again! Ideal for children aged between…
Covert Scratch Projects into Android Apps
As well as converting Scratch projects into standalone programs (see previous post), did you know that you can also take any Scratch project and turn it into an app for…
Who’s Talking About Scratch 3?
Whilst trying out Scratch 3, pupils have been giving their chatbots a voice. The responses are random to give the chatbots a bit of character. We're going to look at…
Southampton Coding Workshops
Our creative coding workshops are coming to the Southampton area this October! First Coding will be running our popular Scratch game building workshop on Saturday 27th October at The Pavilion…
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…
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…
The Scratch Chatbots
I want to share one of the projects my group are working on at the minute. The task was to build a convincing chatbot in Scratch, homing in on particular…
The Motor Control Kit
The school talks I recently gave on electronic toy hacking highlighted a problem that motor control for the Raspberry Pi and Microbit could be made a great deal simpler (and…