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Perfect for beginners of all ages learning to code visually with blocks.
Blockly for Beginners
Learn how to program in our Blockly visual environment! You can also see how your programs look in Python. This course is designed for students with no experience with programming, and is perfect for beginners of all ages.
This level is most suited to students in upper primary or anyone who wants to start with the basics in a visual programming environment.
Australian Curriculum v9 Content Descriptions
This course is designed to support your lesson planning. While comprehensive, individual resources may not cover every aspect of a content description. We recommend reviewing each resource to determine how it best fits your teaching objectives.
What's Next?
Finished this course? Check out :
- micro:bit Starter - Blockly or
- Beginners Turtle - Blockly or
- Playground - Blockly or
- Design Thinking
This course is free for Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand users.
| Module | Progress | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Module 1: Write your first program! | |
| 2. | Module 2: Calculations and Turtle! | |
| 3. | Module 3: Asking questions and making decisions! | |
| 4. | Module 4: Decisions with numbers and colourful turtles! | |
| 5. | Module 5: More decisions and modifying strings! | |
| 6. | Module 6: Loopy loops! | |
| 7. | Module 7: Data representation and indexing! | |
| 8. | Module 8: Functions, fills and pizza! | |
| 9. | Module 9: More on functions | |
| 10. | Module 10: x- and y-coordinates and RGB colour! |