CoderDojo Rosemont

16/03/2015

Planning is under-way for our next sessions at CoderDojo Rosemont.

We plan to cover a mix of .html and AppInventor to build on skills young people have previously developed in SCRATCH. The sessions will be open to 10-17 year olds and completion of a beginners SCRATCH course at any CoderDojo is a prerequisite to getting the most of the sessions.

We'll post information here and on our webpages at http://coderdojorosemont.com/hotnews.html before the end of the month.

CoderDojo is an open source, volunteer led movement of free computer programming clubs for young people. CoderDojoRosemont is the Dojo based at Rosemoont School in Sandyford, Dublin 18, Ireland

07/03/2015

Inaugural Graduates from our very frist CoderDojo Sessions at Rosemont School.

Pictureed here some of our young people who have been learning Programming, Animation, Game Development, Story Telling and Networking, The group are flanked by our excellent young mentors and .

Well done to all!

06/03/2015

Certificates ready for those who completed the inaugural CoderDojoRosemont Sessions - tomorrow we'll find out who's names will appear on them. Congratulations to all!

11/02/2015

There must be more that twenty methods to "sort" lists with computer programs, and this week we learnt how to code one of the oldest algorithms.

It's been described since 1956 ... the Electronic Data Sorting "Bubble Sort".

Implemented here in SCRATCH by our young people on just week 4 of our dojo sessions at Rosemont.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/47672738/

Make games, stories and interactive art with Scratch. (scratch.mit.edu)

31/01/2015

Have you ever wanted to create your own animations or cartoons online?

Here is a simple example from just our third week of SCRATCH at CoderDojoRosemont where we learnt how to use "Parallax Scrolling". It's a technique where the background moves slower than objects in the foreground to simulate movement.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/45855948/

Make games, stories and interactive art with Scratch. (scratch.mit.edu)

25/01/2015

Its our second week of CoderDojo at Rosemont and we learnt about collisions, variables, how to broadcast messages between sprites and the background, and we wrote this maze game together.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/44794554/

The code for everything we cover is on the MIT website or can also be downloaded from our DropBox. Check-out our http://www.coderdojorosemont.com website for all the links.

Make games, stories and interactive art with Scratch. (scratch.mit.edu)

23/01/2015

Congratulations to Devtech Research Group and the MIT Media Lab on the development of http://www.scratchjr.org/

Expanding SCRATCH to even younger people!

17/01/2015

A great launch today for our Dojo at Rosemont. We covered how to move sprites around the screen, how to detect when different keys are being pressed and we even made a simple music keyboard. Great participation from all the young people who came along - and thanks to TheFayeDunne, Harry, and everyone at Rosemont school for their help.

In just the first hour we had our first program!
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43726650/

Follow the link, and press the Greenflag to run it.

Make games, stories and interactive art with Scratch. (scratch.mit.edu)

23/12/2014

At CoderDojoRosemont we now have our website live. As we expand the sessions available at our Dojo at Rosemont School our Ninjas will be able to upload their own webpages and experiment with html5, CSS, MySQL, PHP and Perl CGI scripting.

Check out our webpages at http://CoderDojoRosemont.com

CoderDojo is an open source, volunteer led movement of free computer programming clubs for young people. CoderDojoRosemont is the dojo based at Rosemoont School in Sandyford, Dublin 18, Ireland

19/12/2014

So how about this ... the parents guide to coding...

https://coderdojo.com/news/2014/12/17/the-coderdojo-technology-coding-opinion-editorial-featuring-mary-moloney/

What is coding? If you asked a certain nine year old I know, he’d answer without missing a beat: “It’s the stuff I type that makes my computer do cool things.” Easy for him to say. The intricacies of programming are just another part of his world – the skills that allow him to build great websites,…