Workshop Provider: Code Created

Workshop Themes & Tags: STEM, Coding, Python, Programming, Computing

Age Suitability: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5, Higher Education

Can your workshop be delivered to schools online?: Yes

Delivery Locations by Regions: All UK Regions

Workshop Summary: 

Our new Python Workshop is great for teaching coding fundamentals through a real-world programming language. We will use Python (a programming language used by companies such as Google and NASA) to teach coding basics!

During the workshop, we will learn how to use Python’s loops, conditional programming, and more, to build some really cool projects including interactive quizzes, a two-player game, and Python-based micro:bit apps including a working spirit level and more! We’ll also explore the graphical capabilities of Python too, creating some applications and solving real-world problems through programming.

What is Python?
The Python programming language is free to use and makes solving computer problems super easy and accessible. The code can be written once and run on most computers and many devices. It can be used for processing text, numbers, images, scientific data and just about anything else you might save on a computer. It is used daily in the operations of the Google search engine, the video-sharing website YouTube, NASA and the New York Stock Exchange!

Who would benefit from our Python Workshops?
Give your pupils a head start with our Python Workshop, designed for pupils aged 10-16 (Years 6 – 11). It’s a great workshop to give your pupils hands-on experience with a real world programming language, and is a workshop designed to teach the fundamental concepts of programming. It is a real problem-solving workshop, designed to challenge your pupils whilst exposing them to real-life coding scenarios through some really fun projects!

What will the pupils learn?
We’ll teach your pupils all about using strings, integers, lists, loops, and conditional programming through some fun and exciting projects. Everything your pupils will learn will help them grow their knowledge of coding and all of these fundamentals are applicable to other real-world programming languages too (including JavaScript, C#, and more). We’ll finish up the day by coding some apps for the BBC micro:bit using Python too! So they can see their code up and running on an Internet of Things device!

Additional Information: 

We can run half-day or full-day versions of this workshop. We can run these sessions in-school or online and all sessions are led by professional apps and games developers.

Testimonials:

 “A Code Created Masterclass gave students the chance to grab their laptops and learn all about different types of coding projects and how to code them. Some pupils already had an impressive knowledge of some coding languages, but were keen to learn more. With complex algorithms, the class was challenging but interesting and students left with a more complete knowledge of how coding works.”

—Oxford Royale Academy

”The children really enjoyed their sessions with you and I think lots of them now want to do app design as a job! The children were all engaged and keen to listen and find out more. All of the teachers were also saying how fantastic the workshops were as well so thank you very much!”

—Abigail Jones (Downfield Primary and Nursery School, Hertfordshire)

”All students are continuing to play the game they created, and they’re very good at it! I hope from this experience that they will consider game design as a possible career path. It was important to me that they see the process behind the games they play and use their imaginations to create a game themselves.”

—Angelina Morello (Nightingale Community Academy, Tooting, London)