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Code.org Launched Code Studio



Code.org is a non-profit organization and eponymous website led by Hadi and Ali Partovi[1] that aims to encourage people, particularly school students in the United States, to learn computer science.[2] The website includes free coding lessons, sounds, and many more things used to help students code fluently. The initiative also targets schools in an attempt to encourage them to include more computer science classes in the curriculum.[3] On December 9, 2013, they launched the Hour of Code nationwide to promote computer science during Computer Science Education Week through December 15, 2013.[4][5][6]




Code.org Launched Code Studio



During Computer Science Education Week[27] from December 9 to December 15, 2013, Code.org launched the "Hour of Code Challenge" on its website to teach computer science to school students, enticing them to complete short programming tutorials.[28][29][30][31] The Hour of Code involved getting people to write short snippets of code to achieve pre-specified goals using Blockly, a visual programming language of a similar flavor as Logo. The initiative had been announced about two months in advance[32] and at the time of launch, the initiative was supported by then United States President Barack Obama as well as executives from technology companies such as Microsoft and Apple Inc. It was also supported by educational online learning platforms such as Khan Academy.[33][34][35] About 20 million people participated and over 600 million lines of code had been written.[36][37][38] The Hour of Code also offered participation gifts to some of the schools involved, such as a set of fifty laptops or a conference call with one a tech "luminary" like Gates or Dorsey.[39] The crowdfunding effort for Hour of Code received the highest amount of funding ever raised on Indiegogo.[40] By October 2014, about forty million students had taken the Hour of Code class,[41] and a second Hour of Code was held in December 2014.[42] That year, locations for Hour of Code lessons included Apple retail stores.[43]


The first step in the organization's efforts as regards the curriculum of schools was to work with US school districts to add computer programming as a class. Most US schools did not have a course code for computer sciences, in order for schools to be able to offer coding as a class. After this, the next step was to create free online teaching and learning materials for schools to use if instituting computer science classes.[46] By 2014, Code.org had launched computer courses in thirty US school districts to reach about 5% of all the students in US public schools (about two million students),[47] and by 2015, Code.org had trained about 15,000 teachers to teach computer sciences, able to reach about 600,000 new students previously unable to learn computer coding, with large percentages of those being either female or minorities.[48] To date, Code.org has prepared over 72,000 educators to teach computer science.


To advance this, the Code.org has launched Code Studio, A Toolset And Curriculum For Teaching Kids Programming.The plan is to get students in kindergarten through high school interested in the underlying concepts behind coding through guided lesson plans. Rather than having kids pick up a language like Python or Java, Code Studio teaches the underlying concepts in programming through the manipulation of blocks of logic. When you stack those blocks together in a particular order, you can move a character around a scene (for example Angry Birds characters) or draw a shape. Code Studio documentation tells that even top universities teach block-based coding (e.g., Berkeley, Harvard). Code Studio can also show your program as JavaScript code.


Today, we reviewed seven fun code.org games and applications. If you enjoyed these programs, you may also like Scratch, another, extremely popular block-coding language for beginners. Save your spot in one of our free Scratch Ninja classes today!


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