Object Based Programming Language For Humans

I am working on the idea that my Year 8 pupils could consider developing their own, object based programming language for a human.


The initial ideas, put into slides are below. The first stage will be to have a very generic language which we mentally fill in the gaps. Slowly building in variables, loops and possibly classes which we can call from a bank of ideas.


The slides are uploaded to my dropbox page...


https://www.dropbox.com/s/oefdry3maq3upr9/Creating%20A%20Human%20Robot%20Demo.pptx?dl=0


or for the empty slides


https://www.dropbox.com/s/3lwpc2tkb5f3ke0/Creating%20A%20Human%20Robot.pptx?dl=0








Lesson plan (Rough and work in progress as always...)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iu8z4ykra5slbyd/CS%20Programming%20A%20Human%20Robot.docx?dl=0

New CS Lessons

I have taken a term or so to settle into my new role as Head Of Computer Science/ICT at Chafyn Grove School Salisbury.


I am now working to devise a number of programming lessons which can support my student through the new curriculum. I will use resources such as CSUnplugged, Code4Life and many others, but enjoy trying to find new ideas myself.


One of my very good friends has contributed a session on search engines already, which went down brilliantly with Year 8... although I imagine may be moved to Year 7 or even Year 6 as time goes by.


The report on this is here; http://www.stewh.com/2014/12/how-does-a-search-engine-work-a-30-minute-talk-with-activities-for-11-13-year-olds/


Stewart is a PhD Computing student at Glasgow University.