Lessons

Series of one off lessons (mapped to the new Computing curriculum in England) designed to introduce students to programming.

Hour of Code

Selection of one off tutorials designed to give students a taster of programming.

TouchDevelop Turing Test

In this brief introduction to programming using TouchDevelop, students create a chatting robot (chat-bot) designed to confuse the friends in to thinking that they are talking to a real person. Also introduces students to Alan Turing and the concept Artificial Intelligence.

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Magic 8-Ball

In this introduction to programming, students will create a “Magic 8-Ball” game. The game will work by asking the user to input a yes / no style question and will respond with one of it’s classic predictions such as: “Yes”, “Most likely” and “Outlook not so good”.

8-Bit Challenge

In this lesson, students create 8-bit artwork using touchdevelop and learn how a computer represents an image using binary.    

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Create an eBook

In this lesson, students will learn how to create an eBook using TouchDevelop. Students will also learn the purpose of components inside a computer such as RAM and the CPU.

Turtle Power

In this lesson, students are going to learn how to create simple algorithms to control a turtle. 

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Want more lessons? Check out my all new 15 week Scheme of Work (Mapped to the new Computing curriculum)