What is it?

For the past few years millions of people in nearly 200 countries have participated in the Hour of Code. This event is held during the first week of December and was launched to promote computer science learning.

 What will you learn?

Each year special one hour tutorials are made available for free during the Hour of Code. These tutorials teach basic programming concepts as well as specific programming languages. For example, one tutorial might teach you how to create an app for an Android phone while another will walk you through creating a game.

 How is it different than what we do in this class?

In this class you are learning how to create webpages, which are viewed in browsers. The code you learn- HTML, CSS, JavaScript- is for creating a webpage to run in a browser. Web development is a subset of computer science. The Hour of Code activities focus on the broad field of computer science, which includes web development, creating games, and mobile apps, among other things.

 Choose an activity

Option 1: Today you can choose something to work on at your own pace the Hour of Code website. Check out the categories on the left side to help you filter your choices. Try something and give it some time before moving onto something else. Try finding and sticking to something you like!

Option 2: Learn Swift, Apple’s programming language used to create iPhone and iPad apps. You will use an app called Swift Playgrounds and will follow tutorials in there.

Not sure what to pick? Take this short interactive quiz!