Community reviews for Code.org

Code.org is such an awesome way to introduce students of all levels to programming. I like that it offers several options and makes it easy for students to explore a few different platforms. It's extremely engaging and I have yet to see any students lose interest. Many of the activities are very challenging and it affords students the opportunity to discuss their solutions with each other. I use this site as a jump off prior to bringing them into Scratch or Bootstrap. The drag and drop format is also a great reinforcement for students being introduced into robotics, as blocks such as loops and conditionals really show how feedback control is a vital part of programming autonomous machines.

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I think this is a great introduction for students, most of who have never thought about coding before. It makes it accessible and the accompanying videos help them realize how they could pursue careers in the field. That being said, it is an introduction to coding. For deeper learning students will need to move to other programs, such as codecademy.com.

I have used Code.org and the Hour of Code activities for the Computer Science courses I teach at the start of the course. It is a really great way to have students learn about coding or providing instructions to the computer to perform a specific task. Some of the coding activities may not generate interest for students that have ample coding experience or have learned programming languages such as Java. But I think it provides great lessons for beginners about computing and computational thinking.

I use Code.org because it provides a learning environment for all ages and for all learning abilities within a classroom. With the self-paced lessons it allows students to move at their pace keeping them engaged and allowing me as a teacher to help students without slowing the pace of other students.

This is a great website for coding. There are three different log in options for students, using pictures, secret words, and emails, making it much easier for all ages of students to log in. The main lesson page was confusing for students because they had a hard time finding which lesson they left off on. The website does save their progress, which is great if you can get student working for a few minutes at a time.

I really have only great things to say about Code.org. They know how to engage students with the characters, animations, games. They are teaching students the basics of coding, but making it fun and engaging. Students like seeing how many levels they can complete correctly, and they love earning the certificates. Now with a feature to save and print out different types of work they created, I can go through their work and print out projects they made and put them up on the bulletin board. Teachers definitely need to go on it before putting students on, so that they are able to help students that might get confused, but I enjoy it just as much as the kids so that is fine by me.

We have some students who do not speak English, they were very successful using this site. I noticed that some of the students that struggle in reading and math in the classroom, caught on rather quickly and were thrilled that they could complete a task without help. I also noticed that some students who do well in classroom, found coding frustrating. The greatest observation I made was students, helping other students and collaborating with each other to achieve a common goal. Students as young as five years old cold use this site. I just concentrated on the older students hoping to spark some interest in coding, I ignited a fire! I can't wait to continue using this site after winter break!

I believe every child should learn a little programming. The skills learned while programming are life skills that will allow students to excel in any area and field they choose. Code.org has really done an outstanding job creating a site that allows non-programmers to teach students a little programming basics. The site is so fabulous, President Obama used it to write his first line of code.

Code.org has really improved from their initial product (which came out last year). I recently attended one of the first trainings in Texas, which I would recommend. They've added more courses--scaffolded by ability/grade level--and standards alignment documents. I plan on using whole-group it in my upcoming graphing lessons. It will serve as a great hook and extension in the classroom. In my technology club it is a great teaching tool for creation. We're going through the course and using storyboards to create vocabulary stories to share with the school.