<div dir="ltr">Thanks guys. I have used these for him last year and he is just craving more!!! Any competitions happening like code hour last year?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Fox, Richard R <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fox.richard.r@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">fox.richard.r@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>There's lots of self-paced sites that give you tutorials, and it's game-based so they get scores and badges.</div>
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<div>I like these:</div>
<div><a href="http://codecademy.com" target="_blank">http://codecademy.com</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming" target="_blank">https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming</a></div>
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<div>And check out Hour of Code too.</div>
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<div>Richard Fox</div>
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<div>Learning Technologies and ICT Infrastructure<br>
Diamond Valley College</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all,
<div>I was wondering if any one knows of anything for a very keen Year 8 student who wants to learn everything about programming as we dont have anything at the moment.</div>
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