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By October 2014, about forty million students had taken the Hour of Code class, [40] and a second Hour of Code was held in December 2014. [41] That year, locations for Hour of Code lessons included Apple retail stores. [42] In December 2016, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau helped launch the international Hour of Code campaign for 2016. [43]
Code.org launched the "Hour of Code" campaign in December, with endorsements from Barack Obama, actor/businessman Ashton Kutcher and singer Shakira, which featured workshops at the Apple and Microsoft campuses and asked school teachers to devote an hour of class time to programming education. [24]
The establishment is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The training provided is intended to be inspired by the changes brought about by the Internet with a pedagogy qualified as " peer-to-peer ". Depending on the course chosen by the student, it delivers an RNCP title of level 6 or 7: a certificate recognized by the French State, but no diploma.
Amazon Web Services said in a post on Tuesday that developers report spending an average of “just one hour per day” on actual coding. But that doesn’t mean these workers twiddle their thumbs ...
CodeHS was selected as one of three education technology companies to take part in the 2013 Innovation Challenge, part of the NBC Education Nation initiative. [6] Innovation Nation challenge participants CodeHS, Teachley, and GigaBryte participated in a series of challenges in October 2013, culminating in a live pitch contest broadcast live on NBC during the Education Nation Summit.
CoderDojo is a global volunteer-led community of free programming workshops for young people. The movement began in 2011 as a grassroots organisation with each individual clubs (called a dojo , after the Japanese name for a hall or place for immersive learning, experiential learning) acting independently, with one founding principle: One Rule, Be Cool.
The concept of code blocks it implements is based on MIT's Scratch visual language (listed above). It also permits the use of normal typed code (separate or intermingled) through its own API and the Haxe language. ToonTalk is a language and environment that looks like a video game. Computational abstractions are mapped to concrete analogs such ...
National Coding Week was founded by former headteacher Richard Rolfe and tech entrepreneur Jordan Love, who was appointed EU Code Week Ambassador for the UK. [1] It took place during the week commencing September 21, 2014 with the aim of helping adults to improve their digital literacy in order to fill the growing skills gap.