Английская Википедия:Code Club
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox organization Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012. The initiative aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 13 to develop coding skills through free after-school clubs. As of November 2015, over 3,800 schools and other public venues established a Code Club, regularly attended by an estimated 44,000 young people across the UK.[1] The organization also expanded internationally, and there are now over 13,000 Code Club operating worldwide.[2] Volunteer programmers and software developers give their time to run Code Club sessions, passing on their programming skills and mentoring the young students.[3][4] Children create their own computer games, animations and websites, learning how to use technology creatively.[5]
It has Scratch, HTML & CSS, Python and a variety of other coding languages. The initiative also provide free BBC Micro:bits to children above the age of 9.
History
Code Club is the brain child of Clare Sutcliffe[6] and Linda Sandvik,[7][8] Шаблон:Blockquote A viral video featuring Prince Andrew, Martha Lane Fox, Chad Hurley, Niklas Zennström, Brent Hoberman and Tim Berners-Lee was released to promote awareness of the project.[9]
On 3 November 2015, it was announced that Code Club had become "a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation."[10][11] On 16 March 2018, Clare Sutcliffe, then executive director at Raspberry Pi, announced leaving both Code Club and Raspberry Pi.
Technologies
The curriculum teaches children Scratch, HTML & CSS and Python. Students and teachers use the Trinket web browser application to write code.
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