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Our Curriculum Pillars: Project-Based Learning, Untutorials, and Creative Projects
August 19, 2024The project-based, “learning-by-making” classroom “Learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.” -Seymour Papert The Coding Space's project-based, “learning-by-making” classroom style provides a space for students to develop and practice real-life learning strategies by building meaningful projects. In this way, learning is…
Code 4 Change 2024: Protect Our Planet
June 27, 2024We hope you’ll join us in acknowledging and celebrating our coders' hard work and creativity in devising solutions to problems facing our planet. For each submission, The Coding Space made a donation to The Nature Conservancy, supporting the preservation of our natural world.
8 Reasons to Start Coding Young
May 01, 2024In our increasingly digital world, lots of parents want their kids to become computer-literate — and why shouldn’t they? The question is, when should they start learning? According to Harvard, the younger the better. As it turns out, most professional programmers started learning their trade early in life. According to Stack Overflow’s 2020 Developers survey, over 54 percent of professional…
7 Things You Can Do With a Foundation in Code
May 01, 20241. Web developer Web developers create and maintain websites. They might work in a wide variety of industries spanning tech, publishing, management consulting, advertising, or be self employed. Back-end web developers create the website’s structure, write code, and verify the code works, while front-end web developers work on the visual part of the website, designing the layout of each page…
3 Tech-Centric Ways to Promote Sustainability
April 22, 2024We’ve all heard the standard strategies for reducing our carbon footprint — take the bus instead of driving, reduce red meat, shop local, etc. But we often forget about the impact of our tech. The emissions created by our technology may be less obvious to us, but they’re probably more substantial than you think! In 2018, Bitcoin alone used 0.5% of the world’s energy consumption this year, making…
Shaping the Future: 4 Kid Inventors Who Are an Inspiration to Us All
January 17, 2024To honor Kid Inventors Day on January 17th, we've compiled a list of remarkable young inventors who have demonstrated the impact of having a great idea and the determination to see it through.