This website is for my son Jack and I (Dad) to record our journey into coding. I want to try and encourage Jack to learn to code with the hope that he gains a basic understanding and would like to continue to progress as a coder in the future.
Jack is currently playing around with scratch, he is able to be left alone to make small animations with sound and such. Scratch is a great tool and especially great for kids, as little to no typing is required, just an imagination!
With the help of Raspberry Pi’s we have been learning how code can be used to do things outside of a computer screen as can be seen in our Building a robot page.
As I code I point out parts of code (like variables) and try to explain to Jack what they are and used for. We are coding in python, I’m not too familia with python, I’m more comfortable with JavaScript, so I’m also learning too. When the code is complete I let Jack play around with the variables so he can make the program run how he wants it to. For example changing the motor speed variables for our robot project.