Kids from as young as six have started shaping our world with technology, and they’re loving it. The 2018 CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge proves the next generation of children are leading the way out of the classroom and creating their own bright future. This year’s coding challenge was My First Business App Prototype, a challenge…
Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft, about why coding is great for kids:
‘Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.’
- Financial Review: ‘Should schools teach coding as part of the curriculum?’
- Wired: ‘Forget foreign languages and music. Teach our kids to code’
- Forbes: ‘Why Estonia has started teaching its first-graders to code’
- The Guardian: ‘Why all our kids should be taught how to code’
- Mitchel Resnick: ‘Learn to code, code to learn’
- The Guardian: ‘Young coders: what’s happening in the rest of the world?’
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook, about why coding is great for kids:
‘Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these skills today.’
- The Wall Street Journal: ‘Sorry, college grads, I probably won’t hire you’
- Los Angeles Times: ‘Want to prepare kids for the future? Teach them to code’
- Tech Crunch: ‘Linkedin’s Reid Hoffman on two realistic outcomes of teaching everyone to code’
- Business Insider Australia: ‘Here’s why more than 800 Harvard students signed up for a notoriously hard computer science class’
- LinkedIn: ‘Teaching kids to code will change the world. Here’s how’
- Venture Beat: ‘Why computer science is Stanford’s top major, in two charts’
Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group, about why coding is great for kids:
‘I was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!’
- Hour of code: ‘Leaders and trend-setters all agree on one thing’
- Australian Computer Society: ‘Digital technology and Australian teenagers’
- Ted: ‘Let’s teach kids to code’
- Venture Beat: ‘Will.i.am: Coding is the ‘most creative space’
- Tech Crunch: ‘Google invests $50 million in “made with code” program to get girls excited about CS’
- Business Insider Australia: ‘Meet Lyndsey Scott, The Victoria’s Secret model who codes in her free time’
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CODE4FUN Students Visit Google Australia
Last Thursday the top 30 students of the CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge went on an exclusive tour of one of the world’s most innovative companies – Google. Google was founded in 1998 and from the beginning, their goal has been to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible. Not just…
CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge 2018: My First Business App Prototype. Winners & Their Projects
We are excited to announce the results of our Winter Coding Challenge 2018: ‘My First Business App Prototype’. Our students were encouraged to make their first step into the World of Startups. We wanted them to think as Inventors and Entrepreneurs, and being ready to launch their first business and change the world! The main…
Meet Rafael, the CODE4FUN student who released his own Android App
Please meet CODE4FUN student Rafael Deubler, who recently released his own Android App. Rafael started learning coding with CODE4FUN from our Scratch Beginners course two years ago, and currently being our Pro Unity3D student he developed an Android App by himself using Unity3D, a professional game engine. What an incredible achievement, very well done, Raf!…
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Course for High School Students
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CODE4FUN 3rd Annual Coding Challenge: Top 40 Participants visit Atlassian
Each year CODE4FUN has a Christmas Coding Challenge and the entries and prizes keep getting better! This year a theme was ‘Time Machine’, our students used the skills they learned in a class to create apps, games, and animations. There were two challenges set; the first was to develop original stories and games in Scratch and the…
One-Day Coding Camps for Y2 – Y11 Students. Summer Holidays 2018
15 – 25 January 2018. One-day Coding Camps in Mosman Beginners, Advanced and Pro level students are welcome Learn to code and build your own online computer games: join our one-day Coding Camps for Y2 – Y11 students these summer school holidays. These one-day coding workshops is your pathway to more advanced coding during…
Learn to Code and Build Your Own Games During Spring School Holidays
One-Day Coding Camps for Y2 – Y12 Students in Mosman and Chatswood. Learn to code these school holidays Learn to Code and Build Your Own Games During Spring School Holidays Y2 – Y6 students are welcome to join our Beginners and Advanced camps. They will develop their coding skills and build their own computer games using Scratch. Y7 – Y12 students are welcome…
CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge: Winners & Projects
CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge results are here: our Winners and their Projects We are very proud to be announcing the winners of our second Winter Coding Challenge. This semester we saw 238 of our 1000 students step up to the task, and competition was certainly fierce. The theme was out of this world – literally!…
New Beginners Coding Course in Granville. Term 3
New Beginners Coding Course in Granville in Term 3, 2017. Y1 – Y 6 students are welcome to join. Granville Youth Community & Recreation Centre, each Saturday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, during school terms. The students learn the fundamentals of computer science while developing their coding skills and building cool games and animated projects using Scratch. Problem…