Students Writing Code

ISR Rumbai students join almost 15 million kids world-wide to participate in the Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15).  Kindergarten through Grade 8 students spent that hour engaged in writing code using a kid-friendly program from Tynker (https://www.tynker.com/login).  Tynker's tutorials are designed to teach fundamental concepts of computer programming, as well as computational thinking. As examples: Programming Concepts: - Repetition - Conditional logic - Computer Drawing - Handling keyboard Input - Creating apps Computational Thinking: - Problem Decomposition - Pattern Recognition - Abstraction - Algorithmic Thinking - Automation Hour of Code 2013 Photos