Hour of Code
Burlington High School celebrated a week full of coding last week as students gathered in the library to try out all levels of coding. Help Desk students kept busy throughout the week with helping students who struggled with all types of levels of coding. Along with helping fellow students out, Help Desk students had to do different sessions of code as well. The hour of code tutorials that I did were on Star Wars, LightBot, and Hopscotch. Star Wars was a really basic coding session and primarily consisted of basic movements with the character R2-D2. I think that this would be perfect for advanced middle schoolers who have a more extended attention span. I chose the Star Wars one to just a get feel of what the hour of code was all about. It certainly was a nice warm up and got me prepared for the next couple sessions.
The next one was LightBot which was a tad more challenging than Star Wars. The goal was to touch all of the blue squares in the game and it had some twists later on as well. I would recommend this session for freshman/sophomores in high school and think it would definitely challenge them. I picked LightBot because I thought it would be unique and I liked the way that the end goal of the levels were all the same unlike the Star Wars one.
Next was the Hopscotch programming session. I chose this because I wanted to create my own games and try doing the programming on my own. It ended up being a success and I made a game with two characters. The goal of the characters was to get as many objects as they could and each object was 100 pts. In total there were 17 objects so that only one person could win. Overall I thought that the activity was very beneficial to students and absolutely got them thinking about problem solving. I loved helping students figure out the different hours of code and proceeding to complete mine as well.
The next one was LightBot which was a tad more challenging than Star Wars. The goal was to touch all of the blue squares in the game and it had some twists later on as well. I would recommend this session for freshman/sophomores in high school and think it would definitely challenge them. I picked LightBot because I thought it would be unique and I liked the way that the end goal of the levels were all the same unlike the Star Wars one.
Next was the Hopscotch programming session. I chose this because I wanted to create my own games and try doing the programming on my own. It ended up being a success and I made a game with two characters. The goal of the characters was to get as many objects as they could and each object was 100 pts. In total there were 17 objects so that only one person could win. Overall I thought that the activity was very beneficial to students and absolutely got them thinking about problem solving. I loved helping students figure out the different hours of code and proceeding to complete mine as well.