How we start learning coding

Hello, 

  In this blog, I will discuss how we can start our journey in coding , which online resources are available for us.

 

 

 How we start leaning coding:

Although there are several coding components of mathematics de-stream grade 9,I don’t think it would be adequate to prepare students for the post-secondary expectations. 

The curriculum is also overwhelming and as a teacher, we can not fully teach a comprehensive package of coding classes because of time constraints. This is way we must introduce coding principles and activating student's curiosity and interest towards the world of coding,  .  The good point about coding field, would be availability of many rich resources. we can help students to develop their coding skills using these materials, websites and online interactive platform. However as the first step, we should educate our students to be able to figure out why they need to learn coding, then they must choose the coding language. There are many online courses, video tutorial, books, e-books, and prepared projects which all are available for teaches and students.  

 

For coding: I found this page, which introduces 46 free classes, website, and Apps, for those who like to develop their learning in coding.

·    https://www.codewizardshq.com/coding-for-kids-free/

Coding For Kids: 46 Free Classes, Websites, and Apps In this website we can find rich coding resources for kids. This page has a link to 46 websites, free class/apps.

CodeSpark Academy, Hopscotch, Scratch Jr., Move the Turtle, Swift Playgrounds, Mimo Codea, Coding Safari, Algorithm City, LEGO Boost, Daisy the Dinosaur, Cargo Bot, Rox’s Secret Code, Run Marco, SoloLearn, Grasshopper, DCoder, RoboCode, Codemoji, Code for Life, Stencyl, Gamestar Mechanic, Create & Learn, Roblox Studio, CodeWizardsHQ Activities, CodeMonster, StackOverflow, Code Maven, BitDegree, Game Maven, CodinGame, Coursera, Free Code Camp, EdX Udemy, AGupieWare, GithubMIT Open Courseware, Hack.pledge(), CS Unplugged , Goalkicker, IDE CoderDojo, University Summer Camps, Hackathons

 

·        For Programming:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/r/index.htm

This website provides helpful tutorial for several languages including R. It introduces the contents of R-programming with this introduction. “This tutorial is designed for software programmers, statisticians and data miners who are looking forward for developing statistical software using R programming. If you are trying to understand the R programming language as a beginner, this tutorial will give you enough understanding on almost all the concepts of the language from where you can take yourself to higher levels of expertise”.

I leaned a lot from this website, and I recommended it to my students who are interested in learning a programming language.

The top platforms for learning to code in 2022:

https://indiaai.gov.in/article/the-top-platforms-for-learning-to-code-in-2022

I found these platforms helpful for kids:

codebyte, codewars, hackerRank, freecodecamp, codecgef, codingame, and leetcode helpful for learning codes,