Kids Code & Computer Science

Links from the bottom of all the December 2016 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.

How I Taught My Dog to Text Me Selfies

https://www.kidscodecs.com/dog-selfies/

How I Taught My Dog to Text Me Selfies

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/03/how-my-dog-sends-selfies.html
http://twilio.com/blog/2015/02/arduino-wifi-getting-started-arduino-yun.html
http://twilio.com/blog/2015/02/arduino-powered-photobooth-arduino-yun-a-webcam-and-dropbox.html
http://twilio.com/blog/2015/02/send-sms-and-mms-from-your-arduino-yun.html

Raspberry Pi Projects

https://www.kidscodecs.com/raspberry-pi-projects-2016/

Raspberry Pi Foundation

https://www.raspberrypi.org

MagPi Magazine

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/tutorials/

Raspberry Pi Weekly Newsletter

https://www.raspberrypi.org/weekly/

Raspberry Pi Official Projects Book Volume 2

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/projects-2/

Online Communities/Project Ideas

https://plus.google.com/+raspberrypi
https://flipboard.com/@alainw68/raspberry-pi-57pki5fqz

Adafruit Tutorials

https://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi

Instructables Pi Projects

http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/?sort=none&q=Raspberry+Pi

Daphne’s TWeeting Catflap

http://blog.berniesumption.com/software/daphnes-tweeting-catflap/

Electric Skateboard with a Raspberry Pi

http://theraspberrypiguy.com/diy-30kmh-electric-skateboard-raspberry-pi-powered/

Wearable Time Lapse Camera

https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-wearable-time-lapse-camera

DotStar Pi Light Painter

https://learn.adafruit.com/dotstar-pi-painter

Minecraft on Pi

https://learn.adafruit.com/running-minecraft-on-a-raspberry-pi

Retropie

https://retropie.org.uk/
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/fiveish-awesome-retropie-builds/

Prime Numbers in a Box

https://raspberrypi.org/magpi/prime-numbers-in-a-box/
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/prime-numbers-in-a-box/

Geocaching

https://www.kidscodecs.com/geocaching/

Geocaching.com

https://www.geocaching.com/
https://www.geocaching.com/guide/
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoGeocaching#cat=cat:newbies&vid=1YTqitVK-Ts

Geocaching with Kids

https://www.washingtonparent.com/articles/1205/geocaching-with-kids.php
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/geocaching-kids.html
http://familysponge.com/play/family-adventures/geocaching-with-kids/

5 Tricks of the Trade for Geocaching with Kids

Advice from a middle school teacher who takes her classes out geocaching.
https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2014/04/5-tricks-of-the-trade-for-geocaching-with-kids/

Spatial Orientation and the Brain: The Effects of Map Reading and Navigation

https://www.gislounge.com/spatial-orientation-and-the-brain-the-effects-of-map-reading-and-navigation/

Binary Numbers

https://www.kidscodecs.com/binary-numbers/

Binary Number Worksheet (Excel format)

https://www.kidscodecs.com/binary-numbers-converter

Binary Numbers Worksheet (PDF)

https://www.kidscodecs.com/binary-numbers-worksheet

Binary Converter

http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/binary-converter.htm

A Tutorial on Binary Numbers

http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/152/97F/Readings/student-binary

Binary Numbers (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number

1 and 0: A Binary Numbers Tutorial

https://www.kidscodecs.com/a-binary-numbers-tutorial-with-1-and-0/

Bakuro Binary Number Puzzles

https://www.kidscodecs.com/bakuro-binary-number-puzzles/

Hour of Code and EU Code Week Resources

https://www.kidscodecs.com/hour-code-eu-code-week-resources/

Hour of Code

https://hourofcode.com
https://hourofcode.com/us/promote/resources

European Union (EU) Code Week

http://codeweek.eu/resources/
http://codeweek.eu/
http://codeweek.eu/about/

Hour of Code Website and App Suggestions for K-8

http://askatechteacher.com/2016/11/16/hour-of-code-3-2/

Our Favorite Hour of Code Resources

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sascp/2015/12/07/our-favorite-hour-of-code-resources-for-csedweek15/

15+ Ways of Teaching Every Student to Code (Even Without a Computer)

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/15-ways-teaching-students-coding-vicki-davis

Hour of Code Unplugged

https://wecancodeit.org/2014/12/08/hour-of-code-unplugged-computational-thinking-without-a-computer/
http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/hour-code-unplugged

Tynker

https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/

Codecademy

https://www.codecademy.com/hour-of-code

Kodable

https://www.kodable.com/hour-of-code

Codesters

https://www.codesters.com/HoC/

Minecraft

http://hourofcode.minecraftedu.com/

Hopscotch

https://www.gethopscotch.com/hour-of-code

Computational Thinking

https://www.kidscodecs.com/computational-thinking/

Computational Thinking by Jeanette Wing

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15110-s13/Wing06-ct.pdf

Computational Thinking, 10 Years Later

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/computational-thinking-10-years-later/

Interview with Jeanette Wing, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSoknljUI4Q&feature=youtu.be

Computational Thinking Workshop Presentation

https://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/CurrFiles/WingCTPrez.pdf

Stephen Wolfram: How to Teach Computational Thinking

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/09/how-to-teach-computational-thinking/

Exploring Computational Thinking (Google for Education)

https://www.google.com/edu/resources/programs/exploring-computational-thinking/

Center for Computational Thinking Carnegie Mellon

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/

Computational Thinking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking

Fizz Buzz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz

How We Created the LOLA App

https://www.kidscodecs.com/how-we-created-lola-app/

LOLA App

Or search the app store for the phrase ‘Tech Kids Unlimited’ to find it.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lola-laugh-out-loud-aid/id1046398348?mt=8
http://lolaapp.com/
https://youtu.be/qho6DSHKxXc
http://connectability.devpost.com/submissions/38440-lola

Tech Kids Unlimited

http://www.techkidsunlimited.org/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/an-interview-with-beth-rosenberg/

Dogfooding

https://www.kidscodecs.com/dogfooding/

Eat Your Own Dogfood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
https://web.archive.org/web/20080621080007/http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5047467.html
https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2006/03/s3005.html

What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000012.html

The Fisher Yates Shuffle

https://www.kidscodecs.com/fisher-yates-shuffle/

Harry Potter Sorting Hat

https://www.pottermore.com/explore-the-story/the-sorting-hat

The Fisher-Yates Shuffle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle

Sir Ronald Fisher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher

Frank Yates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Yates

Sorting Algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm

The Art of Computer Programming

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming

Donald Knuth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/boss.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe

The Wayback Machine

https://www.kidscodecs.com/wayback-machine/

The Wayback Machine

https://archive.org/web/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine

The Internet Archive

https://archive.org/about/
https://archive.org/projects/

The Console Living Room

https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom

MS-DOS Game Collection

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2

Children’s Library

https://archive.org/details/iacl

The Open Library

https://openlibrary.org/

Open Educational Resources

https://archive.org/details/education

Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s Job

https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351

Create a Random Password Generator with C#

https://www.kidscodecs.com/create-a-random-password-generator/

Code on DotNetFiddle

Press the Run button at the top of the page and random password appears at bottom pane below the code.
https://dotnetfiddle.net/Y9VnaX

How to Create a Random Password Generator in C#

http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/how-to-create-a-random-password-generator-in-c/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-ppATOCYI
https://github.com/prjseal/PasswordGenerator
https://www.nuget.org/packages/PasswordGenerator
https://dotnetfiddle.net/U8TLQA

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

https://www.owasp.org
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Authentication_Cheat_Sheet

Do-It-Yourself Project Books

https://www.kidscodecs.com/project-books-scratch-minecraft-hello-ruby/

The Big Book of Maker Space Projects

https://colleengraves.org/bigmakerbook/

From Video Games to Real Life

http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5049P

Scratch Programming Playground

https://www.nostarch.com/scratchplayground

Block City: How to Build Incredible Worlds in Minecraft

http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/block-city-how-to-build-incredible-worlds-in-minecraft_9781419716188/

Hello Ruby

http://www.helloruby.com/

Getting Started with pygame

https://www.kidscodecs.com/getting-started-pygame/

Python

https://www.python.org/downloads/
https://www.python.org/doc/

Pygame

http://pygame.org/hifi.html

Pygame Tutorials

http://www.pygame.org/wiki/tutorials

Making Games with Python and Pygame (Book)

http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/chapters/

Invent with Python/Pygame

In same folder as python program that refers to them.
http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/downloads/

Planet Cute Game Tiles

http://www.lostgarden.com/search?q=tiles

Making Games with Python and Pygame

https://inventwithpython.com/makinggames.pdf

Create Worlds with Tiles

http://usingpython.com/pygame-tilemaps/

Getting Started with mBot Robotics

https://www.kidscodecs.com/getting-started-mbot-robotics/

Makeblock

http://www.makeblock.com

Makeblock Educator Resources

http://www.makeblock.com/stem-education

Makeblock Programming Language

http://learn.makeblock.com/software/

Programming mBot with Scratch or Arduino

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-mBot-with-Makeblock/?ALLSTEPS

Learn Arduino programming with Makebot

http://learn.makeblock.com/en/learning-arduino-programming

Arduino library for Makebot electronic modules

https://github.com/Makeblock-official/Makeblock-Libraries

Makeblock Review

http://www.techagekids.com/2015/10/makeblock-mBot-robot-for-kids-review.html

A Sonic Pi Christmas

https://www.kidscodecs.com/write-christmas-music-sonic-pi/

Sonic Pi

http://sonic-pi.net

YouTube Videos

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SnGNXL2fg6o
https://youtu.be/YnOycrTooyo

Raspberry Pi

https://www.raspberrypi.org/

Code for this Project

https://github.com/lesp/KidsCodeCS-SonicXmas/archive/master.zip