There are a lot of fun things we can do by coding, and I hope to explore a lot of them this year. Computer coding is one of the fastest-growing, most essential skills in the world. Having some knowledge and understanding of how coding works will help you get a better job in the future and will teach you an important skill.

We’ll start off pretty simple and see where we can go from there. In December every year, I like to participate in something called The Hour of Code. We’ll talk more about it then, but you can get a start now. This is also something you can work on when you are waiting for help or a new assignment or just for fun.

Go HERE and sign in the same way that you sign into Office

use your school email address (looks kind of like: j.robson@sjasd.ca ) and your usual password

It’ll ask whether you want to stay signed in or not. You can click YES (but it doesn’t matter)

Then it’ll bring you back to the login page. Please click

When you’re ready to go, all you have to do is click Try Now

 

 

IF you can’t get your account created or can’t sign in, FOR NOW, you can just choose an activity by clicking one of the choices at the bottom of the page (click the image here to go to the page)

If you don’t join the class though, I can’t see your progress, so we’ll have to get that fixed or you won’t get credit for finishing.

To set yourself up:

IF you don’t see the class or don’t have an account already set up:

Once you’ve done that, you’ll see a screen that looks like this:

Click Accept

You may get sent back to the log in screen. Put in your email address and password

You will probably have to fill out some information. Make sure your Display Name contains your actual name so that I know it’s actually you!

Click Go to my account

THEN

Click HERE to join our class You will see a screen that looks like this:

Click Join

Once you are part of our class, I can see your progress and can give you a mark for completing, and then I’ll know when it’s time to move on to more interesting projects.