Tuesday 19 AugAshley, Ben, Heidi & Joshua

Aims

To provide a fun and creative environment on the Raspberry Pi to aid children learning programming and more general Computer Science concepts.

Target Audience

● Age group - 11-12 year olds● Environment - Semi-supervised learning

outside the classroom e.g. after school clubs or at home.

● Experience - may have had exposure to visual block-based programming such as Scratch. Not assuming any prior experience.

Approach (1/2)

● Educational game: programming skills applied in new contexts, using problem solving & creativity

● Integrated Tutorials: to introduce/refresh programming concepts

● Motivating Programming: demonstrating how programming can used to achieve goals much faster

Approach (2/2)

● Optimised for the Raspberry Pi● Broad appeal: not your typical computer

game, e.g. catering for range of abilities and gender neutral theme

First Alpha Release

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