Coding to Create and Communicate

Coding to Create and Communicate book cover — coding to create and communicate coding get kids Heather Lyons

Coding to Create and Communicate — page 1 — Contents Getting Started Screen Time You Have Mail Lights Camera Action Telling a Story Sharing Your Work How to Be Found Say Cheese Drum Roll Please Exploring the Internet Extension Activities Words to Remember Activity Answers Index 3 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 22 23 24 Children will need access to the Internet for most of the activities in this book Parents or teachers should supervise Internet use and discuss online safety with children

Coding to Create and Communicate — page 2 — Getting Started Hi I’m Data Duck In this book I will show you the fun and creative things we can do with our computers We can use different types of computers to be creative and to communicate for example phones tablets and laptops We use different programs on these computers to do different things such as writing an email or calling someone All programs are written in code which is a language that computers understand and follow DATA DUCK In this book we will be using coding blocks They are sets of code that we can combine to create code for a computer There are lots of activities in the book for you to try out There are also some online activities for you to practice For the online activities go to www blueshiftcoding com kidsgetcoding and look for the activity with the page number from the book 3

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