Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rickyc091 4048 days ago
Not sure if you've seen this, but code.org created a teaching manual just for it. They also regularly run workshops throughout the United States.

http://code.org/curriculum/docs/k-5/complete.pdf

1 comments

There's also this in the UK for children aged 9-11, you can volunteer to go into primary schools to run a club (teacher assisted):

https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

I do this. The curriculum is all available on github[0].

I think the first semester (Scratch) is really good. Personally I don't like the python and html/css stuff later. The material is quite old fashioned, using terminals and rather dry web pages. It's hard to get kids interested in this after they have spent a few months knocking out colourful and highly interactive games.

0 - https://github.com/CodeClub/scratch-curriculum