Category: apps

CodeableCrafts

Codeable Crafts is an app for kids to create their imaginative stories by drawing and coding. Find a template of your favorite or capture your drawing with the camera, and use crayons and stickers to design your character. Your character will become a hero of your story. To tell a story of your character, use the block-based coding tool. Snap the blocks together to make a sequence, or use advanced blocks to make it interactive. You can also share your stories with your family and friends by email or AirDrop. With Codeable Crafts, kids can enrich their imagination and creativity, and learn the basic concept of computational thinking.

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Swift.org – Welcome 

Swift is now open source!We are excited by this new chapter in the story of Swift. After Apple unveiled the Swift programming language, it quickly became one of the fastest growing languages in history. Swift makes it easy to write software that is incredibly fast and safe by design. Now that Swift is open source, you can help make the best general purpose programming language available everywhere.For students, learning Swift has been a great introduction to modern programming concepts and best practice

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Algoid – features – programming language for kids and beginners !

If you want to learn how to program with a simple but complete language and ide (functional, object oriented with a debugger)If you do not want to relearn a language the day you want to go to java, javascript, lua, c or c++If you want to always have your program in your pocket and be able to complete it where you want, as soon as you have a great ideaOr if you are a teacher and you want to teach programming to your students or perhaps your own kidsAlgoid is for you !Algoid is the first (and at least the only one) language on mobile platform to process its own debugger, step by step execution mode and scope explorer in realtime.Algoid is a software designed to simplify the fascinating art of programming.Algoid is intended for future developers between 10 to 65 years old and for developers who want to do some research on algorithms.

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Hopscotch Curriculum

We’re really excited that you’re going to teach your students to program, both for them and for you. Kids have remarkable imaginations, and creating computer programs is an amazing way for them to express themselves. We’ve seen kids create astonishing things using our simple but powerful tool. We know you’ll see the same when using Hopscotch, and hope you share what your students create. Anyone, regardless of their experience in programming, can teach this curriculum. Just as Hopscotch was built on the principle that anyone can become a great programmer, this curriculum is designed on the premise that anyone can become a great programming teacher. Programming is a way of thinking, building, and expressing yourself. Just as English is not really about grammar, and history is not memorizing dates, computer programming is not actually about code or computers. Just as we ask students to make connections between events in history, we ask students to investigate the interactions between complex systems in computer science.

Hopscotch Curriuculum

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Lightbot: Teaching Rudimentary Coding Concepts to Students | Edudemic

By on January 14, 2015

After I tested Lightbot for a week in my classroom and analyzed other online reviews, I can unreservedly endorse it as the best educational programming game for iOS and Android. Relative to competitors, Lightbot has a stronger educational orientation and simpler explanations of complex concepts.

With Lightbot, educators can not only familiarize students with basic programming, but can also hone students’ problem-solving and logical-reasoning skills. Lightbot is a cut above similar apps, thanks to its simple design and pedagogical focus. Read on to learn how Lightbot works and what makes it the preferred programming education tool.

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10 iPad apps developers will love | ITworld

When the iPad was introduced, most pundits opined that it might be nice for reading online, but that it would never be useful for creating content, much less doing real work. And yet, here we are, a short while later, with 10 meaningful iPad apps for developers, ranging from hardcore development environments to remote consoles.

Without an external keyboard (of which there are many for sale) you lose screen space to the soft keyboard when entering text, though using the iPad in Portrait mode minimizes the amount of space you lose. The good news about using the on-screen keyboard with several of the apps listed is that the apps provide worthwhile enhancements, such as the onscreen equivalent of a TrackPoint joystick.

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Flowlab Game Creator

Make Games, Right in Your Browser

Everything lives in your browser. Making changes is a snap, just press escape to open up the in game builder, then resume playing to test your updates. With no build/deploy process to wait on, updates are quick and painless.

Create Behaviors Visually

No programming experience is required, use flow based programming to visually link simple behaviors into complex game logic. Behaviors are easy to use, but flexible enough to assemble into sophisticated game mechanics and logic.

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