Workshop for kids & teens ages 9 to 14
with Laith Raed
Lecturer / Book author / Founder of Münchner Coding Akademie GmbH.
This 5-day course explains the basic concepts and elements of a modern programming language in a fun and accessible way. In this course your child will build a game in Scratch, learn the most important concepts of Scratch in a playful way, and afterwards also learn basic Python in a fun and lively approach.
Scratch is a simple graphical programming language for children. Similar to Lego bricks, Scratch provides programming segments as blocks that can be assembled in certain combinations and that dock to each other in such a way that your child can use them to build a role-playing game (theater play), or a simple fun and runnable game.
With Scratch, children don't have to write code; they just have to understand the blocks and combine them correctly. Scratch is very colorful, comes with lots of fun characters, background images, and enough programming blocks to use it to understand the idea and logic behind programming languages.
Once your child has learned Scratch and used it to master their own game, they go on to learn the basics of a real contemporary programming language in a fun way. We have chosen by far the most popular programming language, the language of artificial intelligence: Python.
To take some of the abstractness out of learning Python, we will switch between Scratch and Python, look at how to build simple programs with conditions and loops in Scratch by combining blocks, and how to write them in Python using real code.
Based on past experience, this course is a lot of fun for the kids and sparks their curiosity and desire to learn more about modern programming languages, IT, and AI.
The course is organized by Prof. Dr. Joachim Goll from the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. Prof. Goll is also an author and and founding owner of IT-Designers Gruppe GmbH
Course instructor and trainer Laith Raed is a lecturer in programming languages at Munich's LMU and in software engineering at Munich's University of Applied Sciences Munich. He is also an author and founding owner of Münchner Coding Akademie GmbH (More info: coding-academy.com)
