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Presentation ASB Code Club 2015

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=//Susan Wojcicki //=

//Senior Vice President, Google //
=//“Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.“//= //1/29/14//

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 =**//Salman Khan//**=

//Founder, Khan Academy//
=//** “ To prepare humanity for the next 100 years, we need more of our children to learn computer programming skills, regardless of their future profession. Along with reading and writing, the ability to program is going to define what an educated person is. “ **//=  1/22/14

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//Mark Zuckerberg//
//Founder, Facebook// //** “ Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren't enough people who are trained and have these skills today. “ ** //

1/16/14

This week's challenge was learning to add images, link images, and text with a link. Remembering tags and ending brackets is critical! And as always, make sure that your code is uncluttered and orderely-this makes searching for errors so much easier.

We experimented with whiteboard instruction today, since many of the kids were bottlenecking at the some point. While we don't want the club to become a lecture, we might utilize this format periodically, to keep everyone moving along. We are noticing that students are progressing along at generally the same pace, so this might be a helpful format. The student TAs are doing a fantastic job getting around to answer questions that are coming up.

Everyone should sign in at least once, and try to complete the first section before next week's club meeting!

//Quote of the day: "What ever effort you put in is what you get out" -- Mr. Foy //
1/8/2014 Parents need to caution their kids about remembering their passwords and logins. Several students encountered difficulties logging in, but were able to access the tutorials by signing into Google first, on the Codecademy site. Those that did this today, should probably plan on doing so again. Have your kid sign in at home and get comfortable accessing their work.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Here's what the kids said we learned today: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. How to insert an image into a webpage <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. How to link out of an image <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">3. How to add headings and closings to a webpage <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">4. The definition of "HTML"=hypertext markup language. Or, translated=a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic and hyperlink effects on world wide web pages!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Today we started curriculum that covers HTML, CSS and the basics of Javascript. HTML and CSS are not technically "programming" but formatting. The students need to know these markup languages to write applications and programs in Javascript, so it's where we start. We set up accounts at codecademy.org, and signed in for the first time! We scrolled down, and entered the section titled "Website Fundamentals" and got to work. Programming requires experimentation, research and trial/error. We want the students to teach themselves and each other by creating what they want to create, individually. That's why we have them working in groups, but on their own laptops.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hour of Code at ASB 2013! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The week of December 9-15 was an exciting one in the computing world. Over 15 million people did an hour of Code! Here at ASB, students in grades 3-8 got involved. ASB was one of only two parochial schools in the archdioceses participating- ASB's tradition of leadership and excellence continues! Take a look at one of the inspirational videos produced in conjunction with some familiar faces in the tech world...sports...fashion..

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">We're delighted to have over 60 kids in middle school joining us in the inaugural ASB Code Club, and can't wait to get started!




 * <span style="font-family: 'Gotham A','Gotham B',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">15 million students learned to program this week, thanks to the Hour of Code ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #696969; font-family: 'Gotham A','Gotham B',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/13/2013 // All Things D ||


 * Anybody can code ||
 * Tumblr ||

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We will update you with what your kids learned today and what will be covered next week.