Dan Aldred is an exceptional teacher, even amongst the already great bunch we have the pleasure of working with every day at Trinket. In addition to teaching sophmores (Year 10s, as they say over in the UK), Dan puts all of his educational material online at canyoucompute.co.uk, tecoed.co.uk and cambridgetech.co.uk. In this interview, Dan talks about how […]
Code Club is one of the most innovative coding education organizations active today. It uses teacher-led, volunteer-helped, project-based club activities to get kids across the UK hands on with real code after school. Rik Cross has been the Head of Education for Code club for nearly a year and is tasked with creating and revising […]
Designer Veronica Jimenez is the awesome person who translated our Hour of Python activity into Spanish, which you can see here. In this interview, she discusses how she came to her career, the experience of translating our site, and the challenges of learning to code in a second (or third!) language like she did. You can […]
This week we have a very special interviewee. Israeli software developer Ram Rachum started PythonTurtle as a side project in 2009. Focused on giving students and easy and fun introduction to real code centered around Python’s Turtle module, the downloadable Mac and Windows program is being used in classrooms around the world to get students […]
Thanks to some awesome suggestions from a few pioneering users, Trinket now supports neat text adventures. Using our new add files feature Brian introduced a few days ago, a group of parents and teachers from SF Brightworks have made a text adventure game module that students can use to make their own classic adventure games: Their […]