Intro to Programming - Blockly

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A course for beginners to write their first real programs.

This beginner course uses Blockly, a visual tool, and the Blockly Turtle module to make programming simpler and easier to understand, especially for younger students.

In this course students will learn about:

  • variables,
  • user input,
  • strings,
  • data types,
  • branching, and
  • looping.

Students will also be able to see the Blockly code 'under the bonnet' to ease the transition into programming in Python.

This course has been flagged for retirement, please use Blockly for Beginners as an alternative.

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This course is free for Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand users.

Module Progress
1.
Your first program
2.
Calculating things
3.
Making decisions
4.
Putting it together
5.
Investigating strings
6.
Looping
7.
Advanced looping
8.
Counting with code
9.
Putting it all together
1.
Your first program
1.
Hello, World!
2.
Bashō Haiku
3.
Next Up!
4.
Meet the Puppy
5.
Match of the Year!
2.
Calculating things
1.
Next Olympics
2.
Back to Square One
3.
Hexagon
3.
Making decisions
4.
Putting it together
5.
Investigating strings
6.
Looping
7.
Advanced looping
8.
Counting with code
9.
Putting it all together
1.
Your first program
1. Writing your first program
2. Strings and printing
3. Variables
4. Reading user input
5. Multiple variables
6. Congratulations
2.
Calculating things
1. Numbers
2. Data types
3. Turtle
4. Calculating angles
5. Congratulations
3.
Making decisions
4.
Putting it together
5.
Investigating strings
6.
Looping
7.
Advanced looping
8.
Counting with code
9.
Putting it all together