Kids Code & Computer Science

Breaking the Silo

Tips for teaching STEM

https://beneylu.com/pssst/en/stem-classroom/
https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/17/ctq_jolly_stem.html
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/stem-engagement-maker-movement-annmarie-thomas

How to teach computational thinking

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/how-to-teach-computational-thinking/
https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2016/11/teaching-computational-thinking-first-step-bridging-stem-skills-gap
https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=894&category=In-the-classroom&article=
https://code.org/curriculum/course3/1/Teacher

Listening to Data

Alexander’s broadcasts and his music

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/more-than-meets-the-eye-nasa-scientists-listen-to-data/
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnnyym/spaced-out-making-music-with-the-sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b9ykhYzw6k

Motherboard article: “‘The Space Composer’ is Making Music with the Sun”

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnnyym/spaced-out-making-music-with-the-sun

NASA article: “NASA Scientists Listen to Data”

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/more-than-meets-the-eye-nasa-scientists-listen-to-data/

TEDx: “How we turn stars into music”

https://tedxinnovations.ted.com/2016/03/07/spotlight-tedx-talk-how-we-turn-stars-into-music/

University of Michigan: Scientists Listen to the Sun

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/7541-scientists-listen-to-the-sun-in-new-sonification-project

Morse Code

Morse Code Translator

https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html

The Telegraph

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

US Navy Training Video for Morse Code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQyP7VJqvqE

Introducing Sphero

Sphero activities

https://edu.sphero.com/cwists/category

New Yorker article: “A Whole New Ball Game”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/sphero-teaches-kids-to-code

Wired article: “How BB-8 – a Rolling Robot in a Galaxy Far, Far Away – Changed Everything for Sphero

https://www.wired.com/2015/12/how-bb-8a-rolling-robot-in-a-galaxy-far-far-awaychanged-everything-for-sphero/

How inductive charging works

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/inductionchargers.html

Finding Summer Camps

101 questions to ask when choosing a summer camp

https://www.idtech.com/blog/100-questions-to-ask-when-choosing-a-summer-camp/

Technology summer camps

https://www.kidscodecs.com/resources/technology-summer-camps-kids/

ID Tech

http://www.internaldrive.com/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/interview-with-peter-ingram-cauchi-and-alexa/

Tech Kids Unlimited

http://www.techkidsunlimited.org/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/an-interview-with-beth-rosenberg/

Digital Media Academy

http://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/

Emagination Computer Camps

http://www.computercamps.com/

Black Girls Code

Summer of Code 2013 was in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, Memphis, New York, District of Columbia, Chicago, and Oakland, California.
http://www.blackgirlscode.com

Coder Dojo

An international coding club to connect programming professionals with kids 7-17 and their parents (if parents want to get involved).
http://www.coderdojo.com

Kids can Code

Based in Southern California with a focus on Python, Scratch, and Raspberry Pi.
http://kidscancode.org/

The Blue Brain Project

The Blue Brain Project main page

http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

Henry Markram x TED: A brain in a supercomputer

https://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets

Detailed Project Overview by Artificial Brains

http://www.artificialbrains.com/blue-brain-project

Info on How the Brain Works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nH4MRvO-10
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=152&id=1528

Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-human-brain-project-went-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it/

Thinking Outside the Box

SketchUp Help Center: Adding Colors and Textures with Materials

https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000113

SketchUp: Images, Textures, Fixed and Free Pins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCdnfyjv5Q

SketchUp Tutorial: Aligning Textures Using the Fixed Pins

https://forums.sketchup.com/t/aligning-textures-using-the-fixed-pins/41166

SketchUp Textures

http://www.sketchuptexture.com/

PyWeek Game Jam Report

BeepBox

www.beepbox.co

PyGame

www.pygame.org

An online book that teaches programming with PyGame

http://programarcadegames.com/index.php

The main PyWeek site

http://pyweek.org

Modelling Tic-Tac-Toe with Python

Lists and Arrays

http://study.com/academy/lesson/arrays-lesson-for-kids.html

Functions

https://www.kidscodecs.com/programming-functions/
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/computer_programming/computer_programming_functions.htm

User Input

http://www.discoveryplayground.com/computer-programming-for-kids/kids-programming-03/

What Time Is It?

Unix Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

Epoch Converter

https://www.epochconverter.com/

Why Does Unix Time Start at 1970/01/01?

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Unix-time-start-at-1970-01-01

French Republican Calendar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar

Hack Your Own Operation Game

History of Operation Game

https://www.classicgamesandpuzzles.com/Operation.html

MicroPython Speech Module

http://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/speech.html

More about while loops

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/programming/looping/p/intro-to-while-loops
https://www.kidscodecs.com/loops-a-fairy-tale/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWCgZBSx_U

Take Minecraft Game Online

TopG Server List

http://topg.org/Minecraft

Planet Minecraft Skins Directory

https://www.planetminecraft.com/resources/skins/

Official Guide for Multiplayer

https://help.mojang.com/customer/en/portal/articles/429052-how-do-i-play-multiplayer-

Realms website

https://minecraft.net/en-us/realms/

3D Printed Jewellery

3D printing resources

https://www.tinkercad.com/
https://kirakira.com/
https://www.shapeways.com/

Telegraph article: “Is 3D printing the future of fine jewellery?”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/jewellery/is-3d-printing-the-future-of-fine-jewellery/

More articles about 3D printing

https://hbr.org/2013/03/3-d-printing-will-change-the-world
https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21724368-recent-advances-make-3d-printing-powerful-competitor-conventional-mass-production-3d
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/18/world-first-3d-printed-bridge-cyclists-netherlands

From Scratch to JavaScript: WoofJS

WoofJS Teacher Guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13OEk0KQbP1YZTblwRdBcVRCdcGCj2kHjxjzuD2g-fGk/edit#

WoofJS Game Design Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va9qYKSSqAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_jY8UzGv8

Introduction to JavaScript

https://www.kidscodecs.com/javascript/
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/introduction-to-javascript
https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_intro.asp

Julia

A profile from when Julia was first going public

https://www.wired.com/2014/02/julia/

A bare bones tutorial on Julia

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/

A library for doing symbolic mathematics like algebra in Julia

http://mth229.github.io/symbolic.html

An article comparing the performance of a fast Python implementation with the base Julia implementation

http://tullo.ch/articles/python-vs-julia/

A “deep learning” library for Julia

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/mocha-jl-deep-learning-julia/

The main Julia site

https://julialang.org/