Tag Archives: Coding

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Stuck for a gift for a tech-minded teen?

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The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin writes:

MAKESHOP is delighted to announce our second coding workshop aimed at students aged 13-15 –– Apps After School is a four-week-long course, taking place on Wednesday evenings, and it requires no previous coding knowledge.

We’ll be starting with the simplest class and working our way up to make more complicated apps by the end of the month. The entire course costs €75 per student.

By the end of the course, students will be bringing their own designs to life with code and making apps for: Text messaging; Picture messaging; Playing games and Using voice commands  Learn more and sign up here.

Apps After School

The Science Gallery

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.

Meanwhile…

science-gallery-dublin-2016

YIKES!

The Science Gallery’s digital Christmas Card for 2016

*shudder*

Thanks Niamh O’Doherty

HeadPhotoPaulWe had a quiff look.

“Children aged from 5-11 have so much potential for learning about algorithms and computation that it would be a shame to wait until they are teenagers before we teach them the foundations.”

J Paul Gibson, above.

Carter writes:

In reading this month’s US edition of Wired magazine, I happened upon an excellent write-up of one of Ireland’s own in regards to teaching kids to code. J Paul Gibson, formerly of NUI, made some pretty astounding progress in teaching very young kids about coding. With all of the less than favourable news abound these days, we should take the time to celebrate the successes  as well.

 

Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code (Wired)<