Welcome to North’s Hour of Code Activities Site.
During Computer Science Education Week, December 4th-10th, the entire school will be participating in One Hour of Code to heighten awareness of Computer Science. These activities can be done using your chromebook or one of the school computers. The following fun activities or sites are available for you to try out throughout this week (and beyond!).
This year, let’s expand our awareness of Computer Science by taking part in these fun activities. This is a global movement with more than 100 million learners in 180 countries. Everyone can code! Take an hour to join in for the Hour of Code 2017. Get involved and have some fun!
- Visit Code.Org or http://hourofcode.com/us (click the link for “Students – Try It”) to learn how to program a game using Blockly (drag and drop steps), learn the basics of JavaScript and Python programming languages, or make an app to share. You can do this through fun activities building a galaxy in Star Wars, create a MineCraft adventure, or try coding with Anna and Elsa from Frozen! When you finish any of these events, you will receive a certificate to your school email.
- Play a game at our Gaming Corner – Your fellow classmates of the Intro to Programming and Computer Science Basics through Gaming class have built a variety of games. You can play any of these games during your free time using your school ChromeBook. The games are BugSmash (a candy crush like game), Asteroid Destroyer, Flip the Robot Monkey (a platform based game), Bovine Battle (a game similar to Bomberman), and Silly Salmon, a game of skill navigating your salmon character through the obstacles in the river. Silly Salmon is also a touch based game and can be play on your mobile device. Use your finger to swipe up, down, left and right.
- View some short clips (http://csedweek.org/promote – scroll down the page) from people like Bill Gates, Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat, President Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others on how they got started with coding. .
- Try the Yeti Animation – Add code tiles to animate the Yeti to make him dance, wave, and spin his head.
- Try out madewithcode.com to design a ZAC Zac Posen dress that turns heads and lights up the runwaystyle a dress using led lights! Also check out the cool video to see lots of ways you can get involved!
- Going Beyond One Hour of Code – Try some of these activities to have more fun!
- Google Code-In 2015 – Get involved in a Code-In. Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google Code-in, a contest introducing young minds to the world of open source. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills you have. Mentors from their participating organizations are available to lend a helping hand as you learn what it’s like to work on an open source project.
- Hour of Code at Khan Academy – try out one of these activities – drawing with code, making webpages, or making a database.
- When you have some free time, be sure to check out our Media Center display of Books on Computer Science, Programming, and key figures in the development of programming through the years.
