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…
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…
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…
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…
Game Design Concepts
As our game designing courses progress, there have been a number of really good points that have emerged from discussions and the projects we're making. The most important one so…
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…
App Building Workshops
Do you fancy learning a new skill over the weekends? We offer weekend Android app building workshops for people of any age and abilities. So if you've got a great…
Half-Term Workshops
It's been rather busy lately as preparation continues for a few up and coming courses and events. Today saw the last half-term app building workshop where we made a few…