About 8 weeks ago I decided to start teaching coding/programming in the homeschool co-op I am a part of. I am a student myself and trying to understand coding was challenging for me.
One day I told myself I wanna give back to the coding community and share my perspective on what coding is, but I wanted to teach kids.
I sat down and came up with an 8-week introduction to coding. The class was only 50 minutes long so I had to find a way for them to receive the information but not overload with information.
My curriculum I came up with was:
Week 1: What is coding?
Week 2: Languages
Week 3: World Wide Web
Week 4: Web Browsers
Week 5: Web Servers
Week 6: Web Pages
Week 7: IDE's
Week 8: GitHub
It was a tremendous 8 weeks and the kids learned so much. I shared with the my resources and showed them how they could learn to code for free but with these free resources they were only learn the basics.
I encouraged them to research as there are many sites out there for them to learn from, don’t just copy and paste code you find to create your projects, learn and understand how your code works so you can fix it and grow as a coder.
I encouraged to share their work because there way of explaining something can help someone else who is trying to figure something out. No one coder learns the same way as they do, so help to inspire.
I am taking all my curriculum and creating web pages for them to go back and reference.
My hope is to help inspire children to follow their dreams by giving them a basic understanding.
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