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  • Foundational Coding Skills 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    Foundational Coding Skills 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    The Foundational Coding Skills 4 DofE course introduces absolute beginners – who have never written a line of code for the web – to the fundamental concepts of computer coding, including algorithms, sequencing, variables, inputs and outputs, selection (decision-making), iteration (loops) and debugging. Through fun, hands-on challenges, attendees will develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills while learning how to create simple programs and interactive applications.

    Weekly sessions are led by a LIVE!, remote tutor who is able to provide attendees guidance in real-time, along with progress reviews during the sessions. At the end of the course, you will receive a Spark4Kids certificate and a Skills Assessor report will be submitted to the Duke of Edinburgh towards your eventual skills award.

    This course has a taster session Foundational Coding Skills Taster 4 DofE where participants can get a sense of what the full course entails before registering.

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  • Foundational Coding Skills Taster 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    Foundational Coding Skills Taster 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    The Foundational Coding Skills Taster 4 DofE course introduces absolute beginners – who have never written a line of code for the web – to the fundamental concepts of computer coding, including algorithms, sequencing, variables, inputs and outputs, selection (decision-making), iteration (loops) and debugging. Through fun, hands-on challenges, attendees will develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills while learning how to create simple programs and interactive applications.

    Weekly sessions are led by a LIVE!, remote tutor who is able to provide attendees guidance in real-time, along with progress reviews during the sessions. At the end of the course, you will receive a Spark4Kids certificate and a Skills Assessor report will be submitted to the Duke of Edinburgh towards your eventual skills award.

    These Taster sessions run during term-time and by the end of the taster session, participants should have a sense of what the full course entails, helping them decide if they want to complete their Duke of Edinburgh award with the Spark4Kids Foundational Coding Skills 4 DofE course.

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  • Games Design 2D 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    Games Design 2D 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    The Games Design 2D 4 Kids course introduces kids to designing and coding 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web.

    Using the Stencyl tool and it’s built-in visual programming language, users drag and drop code from a palette of “code blocks”, snapping them in place and nesting within each other, enabling the creation of advanced logic from basic components.

    This course is recommended for children who have extensive experience with block languages (such as Blockly) or text-based languages (such as Python 4 Kids) and want to branch into creating games for web, mobile and desktop using professional-level tools.

    You can register for a free Games Design 2D Taster 4 Kids to experience a session before deciding if you want to register your child for the full course.

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  • Games Design 2D Taster 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    Games Design 2D Taster 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    The Games Design 2D Taster 4 Kids course introduces kids to designing and coding 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web.

    Using the Stencyl tool and it’s built-in visual programming language, users drag and drop code from a palette of “code blocks”, snapping them in place and nesting within each other, enabling the creation of advanced logic from basic components.

    This course is recommended for children who have extensive experience with block languages (such as Blockly) or text-based languages (such as Python 4 Kids) and want to branch into creating games for web, mobile and desktop using professional-level tools.

    By the end of the taster session, participants will have an understanding of what the full course entails, helping them decide if they want to continue their coding journey by registering for the Games Design 2D 4 Kids full course.

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  • Python 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    Python 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    The Python 4 Kids course introduces attendees to a powerful, modern programming language that has a gentle learning curve along with lots of useful accompanying documentation. The nature of Python means you can write short programs really quickly, with the platform remaining flexible enough for its use to be limited only by the programmers imagination.

    The simplicity of Python, does not impede its application as a serious programming language. In industry, Python is used in many famous organisations including NASA, Digg, Yelp, Google, DropBox, and Pinterest to name a few, and countless experienced programmers and security professionals use Python in their day-to-day work.

    This basic introduction to Python will cover the basic language features, including:

    • While loops, Arguments, Variables, If statements
    • Coding Arithmetic, Counters, Advanced While loops
    • Arrays, Object Literals, For loops
    • Function definitions, Drawing, and Modulo

    All of this makes Python an ideal first “proper” programming language for those children progressing past the basics of coding.

    This course is recommended for children aged 11-17 who are ready to progress on to text/keyword-based languages after having programmed “block” based languages (such as Blockly).

    You can register for a free Python Taster 4 Kids to experience a session before deciding if you want to register your child for the full course.

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  • Python Skills 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    Python Skills 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    This Python Skills 4 DofE course introduces attendees to a powerful, modern programming language that has a gentle learning curve along with lots of useful accompanying documentation. The nature of Python means you can write short programs really quickly, with the platform remaining flexible enough for its use to be limited only by the programmers imagination.

    The simplicity of Python, does not impede its application as a serious programming language. In industry, Python is used in many famous organisations including NASA, Digg, Yelp, Google, DropBox, and Pinterest to name a few, and countless experienced programmers and security professionals use Python in their day-to-day work.

    Note that these weekly sessions are led by a LIVE!, remote tutor who is able to provide attendees guidance in real-time, along with progress reviews during the sessions. At the end of the course, you will receive a Spark4Kids certificate and a Skills Assessor report will be submitted to the Duke of Edinburgh towards your eventual skills award.

    This course has a taster session Python Skills Taster 4 DofE where participants can get a sense of what the full course entails before registering.

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  • Python Skills Taster 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    Python Skills Taster 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    The Python Skills Taster 4 DofE session is designed to give DofE Participants, a sneak peek into Spark4Kids’ Python Skills 4 DofE course. The nature of Python allows you to write short programs really quickly when learning the language, whilst remaining flexible enough for its use to be limited only by the programmers imagination as more experience is gained.

    Attendees of all abilities are welcome, from beginners (who have never written a line of code) all the way through to those who may have a few years of coding experience.

    Weekly sessions are led by a LIVE!, remote tutor who is able to provide attendees guidance in real-time, along with progress reviews during the sessions. At the end of the course, you will receive a Spark4Kids certificate and a Skills Assessor report will be submitted to the Duke of Edinburgh towards your eventual skills award.

    These Taster sessions run during term-time and by the end of the taster session, participants should have a sense of what the full course entails, helping them decide if they want to complete their Duke of Edinburgh award with the Spark4Kids Python Skills 4 DofE course.

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  • Python Taster 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    Python Taster 4 Kids (age 11-17)

    The Python Taster 4 Kids session is designed to give young learners aged 11-17 a sneak peek into the exciting world of Python programming in one session. Perfect for those who have experience with block-based languages like Scratch and are ready to take the next step into text-based coding, or those who have done text-based coding before but want to move onto intermediate and more advanced topics.

    During this engaging and interactive taster session, attendees will explore the basics of Python: Learn how to use strings, variables, and if statements, interact with Python: Understand how to handle user input effectively.

    By the end of the taster session, participants will have an understanding of what the full course entails, helping them decide if they want to continue their coding journey with the Python 4 Kids full course.

    Join us for a fun taster session that could be the start of your child’s coding adventure!

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  • Unity 4 Kids (ages 11-17)

    Unity 4 Kids (ages 11-17)

    Our Unity 4 Kids is a game design course for children aged 11-17, during which they will complete a number of video game coding and level design projects using the professionally-capable Unity games engine and the MonoDevelop scripting tool. Attendees will learn the basics of coding in the C# language, as well as how to operate the Unity engine to produce polished, fully-realised games.

    Kids aged 11-17 of all abilities are welcome, from beginners (who have never written a line of code) all the way through to kids who have prior coding experience.

    You can register for a free Unity Taster 4 Kids  to experience a session before deciding if you want to register your child for the full course.

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  • Unity Skills 4 DofE (ages 13-17)

    Unity Skills 4 DofE (ages 13-17)

    This Unity Skills 4 DofE is a game design course for attendees aged 13-17, during which they will complete a number of video game coding and level design projects using the professionally-capable Unity games engine and the MonoDevelop scripting tool. Attendees will learn the basics of coding in the C# language, as well as how to operate the Unity engine to produce polished, fully-realised games.

    Attendees of all abilities are welcome, from beginners (who have never written a line of code) all the way through to kids who have prior coding experience.

    Note that these weekly sessions are led by a LIVE!, remote tutor who is able to provide attendees guidance in real-time, along with progress reviews during the sessions. At the end of the course, you will receive a Spark4Kids certificate and a Skills Assessor report will be submitted to the Duke of Edinburgh towards your eventual skills award.

    This course has a taster session Unity Skills Taster 4 DofE where participants can get a sense of what the full course entails before registering.

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  • Unity Skills Taster 4 DofE (ages 13-17)

    Unity Skills Taster 4 DofE (ages 13-17)

    The Unity Skills Taster 4 DofE session is designed to give DofE Participants a sneak peek into Spark4Kids’ unique Unity Skills 4 DofE course, enabling attendees decide if they want to continue their games design journey on the full Unity Skills 4 DofE course.

    Attendees will cover the first few topics of the Unity/C# games design course, where they will get a sense of what it’s like to design professional games using the professional games engine, Unity.

    These Taster sessions run during term-time.

    By the end of the taster session, participants will have a sense of what the full course entails, helping them decide if they want to complete their Duke of Edinburgh award with the Spark4Kids Unity Skills 4 DofE course.

    Note – it is important that attendees set-up the Unity games engine on your home computer prior to joining the Taster session in order that they can experience the full session without any issues.

    Join us for a fun taster session that could be the start of your child’s games design adventure!

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  • Unity Taster 4 Kids (ages 11-17)

    Unity Taster 4 Kids (ages 11-17)

    Our Unity Taster 4 Kids session is designed to give children aged 11-17 a sneak peak into video game coding and games design projects using the professionally-capable Unity games engine. Perfect for those who enjoy gaming and want to understand how professional computer games are created, attendees will learn the basics of coding in the C# language.

    During this engaging and interactive taster session, attendees will explore the basics of games design, and by the end of the taster session, will start to understand how to operate the Unity engine to produce polished, fully-realised games.

    The taster session will help attendees decide if they want to continue their coding journey with the Unity 4 Kids full course.

    Join us for a fun taster session that could be the start of your child’s coding adventure!

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  • Web Coding Skills 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    Web Coding Skills 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    The Web Coding Skills 4 DofE introduces attendees to hand-coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript – the three fundamental building blocks on which most websites on the internet are built. This course covers the core fundamentals for web development fundamentals.

    Attendees of all abilities are welcome, from beginners (who have never written a line of code for the web) all the way through to those who may have a few years of coding experience on websites.

    Weekly sessions are led by a LIVE!, remote tutor who is able to provide attendees guidance in real-time, along with progress reviews during the sessions. At the end of the course, you will receive a Spark4Kids certificate and a Skills Assessor report will be submitted to the Duke of Edinburgh towards your eventual skills award.

    This course has a taster session Web Coding Taster Skills 4 DofE  where participants can get a sense of what the full course entails before registering.

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  • Web Coding Skills Taster 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    Web Coding Skills Taster 4 DofE (age 13-17)

    The Web Coding Skills Taster 4 DofE session is designed to give DofE Participants, a sneak peek into Spark4Kids’ Web Coding Skills 4 DofE course.

    The course introduces attendees to hand-coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript – the three fundamental building blocks on which most websites on the internet are built. This course covers the core fundamentals for web development fundamentals.

    Attendees of all abilities are welcome, from beginners (who have never written a line of code for the web) all the way through to those who may have a few years of coding experience on websites.

    Weekly sessions are led by a LIVE!, remote tutor who is able to provide attendees guidance in real-time, along with progress reviews during the sessions. At the end of the course, you will receive a Spark4Kids certificate and a Skills Assessor report will be submitted to the Duke of Edinburgh towards your eventual skills award.

    These Taster sessions run during term-time and by the end of the taster session, participants should have a sense of what the full course entails, helping them decide if they want to complete their Duke of Edinburgh award with the Spark4Kids Web Coding Skills 4 DofE course.

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