Where Love and Learning Meet
The younger set of boys are itching to learn Scratch. In an effort to be responsible and oversee their time online I (Amber) decided to join them and make it a family affair. I created a Big Green Chair Scratch user profile and gave the boys an … [Read more...]
Often people start learning to program by learning a programming language. With this approach, though the important thinking in creating a program can get lost in the syntax of the computer language you are trying to learn. I realized this for myslef when … [Read more...]
We have invited the Professor to the blog to help us out with all the extra work this week since Bitty is hard at work over on the website. He has just sent us this week's syllabus and the daily schedule of topics are listed below. Of course you can jump … [Read more...]
For our last installment of Artillery, we will be adding a second player, formatting the angle and velocity inputs and keeping score of our hits. To start, lets reformat the input area of our webpage so that the text boxes line up. To do this we will … [Read more...]
If you haven't figured it out yet from previous posts, I am a programmer by trade. As such I have a keen interest in others learning to code at one level or another. Lightbot teaches some of the fundamental thought processes that programmers use on a … [Read more...]
For this installment of Artillery, we will add collision detection and an image indicating where the projectile impacted. Collision detection is simply measuring where our projectile lands and determining if some other object, like the ground or a … [Read more...]
This post is a part of the series How To Be a Coder. You can read other posts in this series: How To Be a Coder and Teach Your Toddler to Program. Beginning around the age of eleven our oldest boys started expressing a desire to learn to program. … [Read more...]
This is the second post in the How To Be a Coder series. You can read the first post where I introduced the current conversation that learning how to code should be a standard part of the curriculum here: How To Be a CoderCan you really teach a toddler … [Read more...]
Today I am reviewing an iBook titled My First Book of Code. This book is available on iTunes for $2.99. I found this book several weeks ago and decided to buy it. Unfortunately the book is no longer available. From communications with the author I … [Read more...]
This is the first of a blog series titled How to Be a Coder. There is a conversation happening right now that we at Big Green Chair would like to be a part of. That conversation centers around the idea that teaching children to code should now be a … [Read more...]