Computer Programming Design

[Shane O'Connell]

Hey. I teach a very bright 10 year old who finishes his classwork very
quickly and I am trying to keeping him interested. He wants to design
computer games when he is older. Any suggestions on suitable
activities/projects for a 10 year old in this area. Any suggestion
welcome

[Stephen Howell]

Hi Shane,

I suggest Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu), it's great for learning the fundamentals of programming and easy to design small games in it. See www.scratch.ie for a national competition in it as well.

Regards,

Stephen 

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Scratch!

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[Seaghan Moriarty]

Scratch, logo, mindstorms, arduino -  anything related to creative yet structured approaches to building and problem solving should be good J

Pairing with another pupil and setting out a rough structured supportive programme is key rather than unstructured hit/miss playing around with it IMHO.

 

Kindest Regards,

Seaghan Moriarty.

[Clare Wallace]

I am currently teaching scratch to first years. I put all the resources and links on moodle and some of them have been very keen and worked through all my material at home. To facilitate and extend these students I set up a project brief for an "independent learning stream" and then use the discussion forum on moodle for them to ask me/each other questions........it is working really well..........just some ideas on how to manage it..........

Clare

[Peter Lydon]

He may well be Exceptionally Able (NCCAs version of 'Gifted'). He might be
10 in body but 20 in brain.

http://codeyear.com/ is a nice place to learn java. Let him rip.

Peter
Www.giftedandtalented.ie

[Adrienne Webb]

Have you thought about using Scratch, free download from http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download
And ICS has produced a workbook which can be viewed at www.ics.ie. Another option might be Lego Mindstorms - learning to programme by making a robot do things. See
http://empoweringminds.spd.dcu.ie/documents/serve-version?id=22 for an article on it's use in the Irish system. Plenty of videos on YouTube.

Best of luck
Adrienne Webb

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