Code For Life

Code for Life is a not-for-profit platform that provides free educational resources which teach children how to code in the classroom, or at home.

Rapid Router is Code for Life's browser-based shopping delivery game developed for children aged 5–14 that uses the programming languages Blockly and, in later levels, Python to teach the basic concepts of programming.[1]

Teachers around the world have free access to learning resources as well as an easy to use teacher dashboard which enables them to track student progress.[2] The Rapid Router game and resources are mapped to the UK national curriculum computing strand for Key Stages 1–3.[1]

History

Code For Life was founded in 2014 by volunteers at Ocado Technology, after a survey of 250 UK primary schools discovered that the majority did not have adequate access to resources or training to teach the new Computer Science curriculum.[3] It was made open-source in 2015.[4] When the 2020 Coronavirus lockdown forced schools in the UK to close, Code for Life opened up home learning resources to parents and caregivers to help children continue to access essential digital skills.[5] Code for Life has over 100,000 registered users worldwide.[1]

Rapid Router

Code For Life's first programming game, Rapid Router, teaches children the basic concepts of programming by having them guide a van through a series of increasingly complicated routes, giving them feedback on the route taken and the algorithm used.

Players first learn concepts using the visual programming language Blockly[6] before learning to translate those concepts into Python,[7] a popular general-purpose language, to prepare them for further learning.

Over 18,500 teachers use the Rapid Router game in classrooms across 133 countries, and more than 12 million games have been played.[5]

References
  1. "Code For Life Official Website".
  2. "Code for Life: Educate". Code for Life. 2020-10-05.
  3. "Ocado Technology readies primary school teachers with code initiative". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  4. "Why we've open-sourced Code for Life". www.ocadotechnology.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  5. Neatham, Anne Marie (2020-05-05). ""Keep Kids Coding"". Ocado Group.
  6. "Code for Life, Rapid Router with Blockly". STEM Learning. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  7. "Code for Life, Rapid Router with Python". STEM Learning. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
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