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This is your chance to turn your coding experience into a holiday project.  Follow the links below to the different activities today.  Enjoy!  - Mr. S Dancing Yeti Project:  Make the Yeti Dance, a digital animation project from Made with Code! Holiday Emoji Project :  You’re about to design a custom holiday emoji that you can share digitally or IRL. Holiday Card Project :  Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends. Check out this tutorial that will help you create a Holiday Card Web Page.  Twelve Days of Christmas Code:    Nice, simple implementation of the Twelve Days of Christmas. As jhixson puts it, “Pretty straightforward … in JS with a few ES6 bits.” Run it today, there are still a couple of days left! That is of course, assuming the twelfth day of Christmas is actually Christmas, which I believe is out of scope of this blog article. Snowstorm Project : ...

We have already used many of the Blockley-Style Programming tutorials found on Code.Org.  Now, without creating an account, try some of the tutorials on other programming languages found on freeCodeCamp.com.  Here is some basic information (taken directly from their About Us page) to get you started.  Good Luck! What is freeCodeCamp? We’re a community that helps you learn to code, then get experience by contributing to open source projects used by nonprofits. How can you help me learn to code? You'll learn to code by completing coding challenges and building projects. You'll also earn verified certificates along the way. We also encourage you to join a study group in your city so you can code in-person with other people. Is freeCodeCamp really free? Yes. Every aspect of freeCodeCamp is 100% free. Can freeCodeCamp help me get a job as a software developer? Yes. Every year, thousands of people who join the freeCodeCamp community get their first software developer job. How c...

Information as of 12/1/17 at 10am Here it is!  So close to the holiday season, and we are now in the middle of Computer Science Education Week.  Please visit  csedweek.org , code.org , and hourofcode.com  to find a wide array of projects for you to complete in class, and at home.  Make sure you are spending some time at home showing your parents (and other family members) how cool is is to learn how to be a programmer! There is a wealth of information about careers, opportunities, and other ways to learn to code!  Use the information found at code.org/promote  to help learn about what your states are doing to increase learning opportunities for students who want to learn about computer science. Watch The Video Below To Get Started! Once you have looked at some of the resources above, and we have discussed them as a class, you have a choice to work on the following items for credit this week: Project 1:  Try the Celebrity Challenge:  Go to...