FirstCoding

Ignite young minds with after school coding and 3d printing clubs in Portsmouth! Bring First Coding to your school today. Download our Head Teacher’s letter from our website or email our Portsmouth manager, Tom at tom@firstcoding.co.uk for more details.

If you're a First Coding student and are a member of the Scouts, then we can help you achieve your Digital Maker badge! This is mine from years ago, quite a bit has changed since then and I've always wondered what computer featured on the badge. I'm thinking it's a Commodore Pet.

What a week it's been! A little change was made in the backend of the First Coding website and it broke EVERYTHING!! The website has been rebuilt and is looking better than it did before the accident. Go take a look.

We'll be running the popular creative Christmas Coding Workshop next month for 7 to 11 year olds. Using Scratch, we’ll be learning how to make our own animated cracker joke generators. All our workshops are currently being hosted online. It’s time to get festive and creative!

This half term, if you know of anyone who likes making games with #Scratch and is looking to push their skills further, then why not try our video series about making our game 'Lockdown Letters'. youtube.com/watch?v=69J02L…

We're very pleased to announce that we'll be starting our popular after school coding club at Bishop Wordsworth's School after the half term break. The club went online during lock down which was great but nothing quite beats having everyone in the classroom creating together.

Today we announced the winners of this summer's #Scratch coding competition. Very well done to all who entered, it was really hard to judge such a great collection of entries this year. youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-0Tl…

We have published a Kindle book, The Game Designer's Notebook which is packed full of our course guides and a great deal more, all for just £2.99! This book is a must for young teens looking to get into game making: amazon.co.uk/Game-Designers…

Do you have bored children interested in making games in Scratch? Then why not get them to enter our free game design competition this summer? firstcoding.co.uk/its-competitio… #Coding #Scratch #ScratchProgramming #STEM #STEAM

If you’re serious about designing games, take a look at our Scratch workshop. Build standalone games, get your ideas in front of large audiences and build a creative portfolio. Check out our example: youtube.com/watch?v=LEyJj8… Our next workshop - 3rd August: firstcoding.co.uk/become-scratch…

A Year 5 pupil has built this app in #Scratch and has been packaged up to run on Android devices. When you place a car on the phone's screen, you start the app and the animation runs. It's designed to give the appearance the toy car is driving along the road at varying speeds.

We're a great admirer of those lofi chillpop animation videos on YouTube, so we set about trying to figure out making our own... in Scratch! All the visuals were processed in #Scratch as well as the sound effects and music. #Programming #Coding #ScratchProgramming

Are you new to coding in Scratch or maybe you would like to improve on your Python programming skills? Then here are our top 5 tips on creative coding. youtube.com/watch?v=LDSPLM…

Top 5 Coding Tips - Number 1 firstcoding.co.uk/top-5-coding-t…

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Top 5 Coding Tips - Number 3: Enjoy Yourself firstcoding.co.uk/top-5-coding-t…

Our top 5 coding tips - Number 4: firstcoding.co.uk/top-5-coding-t…

We are always asked for advice on how to get better at coding, so we've put together our top 5 tips that we think will help anyone out. Top 5 Coding Tips - Number 5: firstcoding.co.uk/top-5-coding-t…

Calling all budding young games designers! Starting Friday 24th April we're launching a weekly game design video series. Like our FB page to get tips on building and distributing #Scratch games every week: facebook.com/FirstCoding/ #CodeClub #Coding #GameDesign #ICT

As a parent myself, I am finding all the offers of remote learning and digital resources in all topics a little overwhelming at the moment, so First Coding has been looking at other ways to help. Read on to find out how... firstcoding.co.uk/how-can-we-hel…