Code For Life

Code For Life is an educational initiative which aims to provide tools and materials to help teachers deliver the computing elements of the UK National Curriculum. As well as a range of teaching packs, Code For Life has developed Rapid Router: a browser-based game aimed at children aged 5–11 that uses the visual programming language Blockly to teach the basic concepts of programming.[1]

History

Code For Life was founded in 2014 by volunteers at Ocado Technology, after a survey of 250 UK primary schools discovered that the majority did not have adequate access to resources or training to teach the new Computer Science curriculum.[2] It was made open-source in 2015.[3]

Rapid Router

Code For Life's first programming game, Rapid Router, teaches children the basic concepts of programming by having them guide a van through a series of increasingly complicated routes, giving them feedback on the route taken and the algorithm used. Players first learn concepts using the visual programming language Blockly[4] before learning to translate those concepts into Python,[5] a popular general-purpose language, to prepare them for further learning.

gollark: Neat.
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gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: It's probably more annoying on paper without interweb tools.
gollark: I'm pretty sure the idea of zettelkasten is that you can *quickly* write down a small note for things and connect it to other things.

References
  1. "Code For Life Official Website".
  2. "Ocado Technology readies primary school teachers with code initiative". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  3. "Why we've open-sourced Code for Life". www.ocadotechnology.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  4. "Code for Life, Rapid Router with Blockly". STEM Learning. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  5. "Code for Life, Rapid Router with Python". STEM Learning. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
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