Africa Code Week comes to Cape Town
Africa Code Week comes to town bringing opportunities for youth to learn how to code during the school holidays.
The 1st to 10th of October 2015 is the inaugural Africa Code Week, during which the Cape Town Science Centre is pleased to announce that it will host a variety of free coding workshops. The transfer of skills will include the free Scratch coding workshops for children aged between 8 and 12 and Whatsapp "clone" workshops for 18 to 24 year olds.
To book for the workshops or to learn more about activities on offer at the CTSC call (021) 300-3200 or email az.gro.cstc@ofni. Activities are also listed on the website www.ctsc.org.za.
• Thursday October the 1st to Saturday October the 10th : Free Scratch coding workshops for children aged between 8 and 12.
There will be five one-hour workshops per day which will introduce children to the joys of creative computing using the popular MIT Scratch interface. The Scratch software application is freely available and makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music and art. The software also allows the option to share these creations on the web. Scratch is used worldwide by teachers to teach the basics of computer programming and as young people create and share Scratch projects (over 10 million to date!), they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively!
• Saturday and Sunday, 3rd and 4th of October: Free build/ code your own Whatsapp! For youth aged between 18 and 24 years.
There will be two workshops per day amounting to 2.5 hours each which will build on learners' existing knowledge of Web technologies, which provides a great skill set for mastering other application frameworks. Students will learn how to build a Whatsapp "clone", a simple messaging app that can be used on a mobile device, through the following core features: messaging and group messaging, notifications and user accounts.
• Thursday 1st of October : Free online courses.
There will be two free courses available on-line and are divided into two age groups:
- Teaching Programming to Young Learners is aimed at teachers, parents, and guardians of children aged 8-11 to enable adults to support children during their coding journey.
- Teens Get Coding is aimed at 12-17 year olds who want to get started with coding in a fun and interactive system, including creating interactive computer games.
• Saturdays, 3rd and 10th of October: Festival of Code - two days of celebrating coding
Entry fee will only be : R5 or 5 empty cans
Exciting activities planned for both days:
Meet Charles Babbage (the Father of computers) and Ada Lovelace (evidently the first coder) for tea.
Speed date a coder
Hear personal stories of success first hand from young award winning App developers
Get introduced to KANO
To learn more about Africa Code Week: www.africacodeweek.org
To see where coding activities are taking place across Africa: www.africacodeweek/map.org
Venue: Cape Town Science Centre, Cape Town
Cost: Free, donations welcome
More info:
370B Main Rd, Observatory, 7925