This program is an easy introduction and crash course into the process of coding. The use of the blocks to guide students As a future math teacher, the code.org website can encourage my students to start coding and understand the process, even if they start it a little late. One thing that stood out to me, and one thing that I can definitely take advantage of, is the emphasis on logic that coding has. Logic is very important and often neglected in today's mathematics instruction, so if I were to use this, I would hope that students digest the coding process more than the features themselves.
I think that code.org would be useful in an elementary school or even a middle school setting. However, as a high school teacher, I think the program and methods need to be more sophisticated and mature to entice students to pursue a computer science degree. At the most, I would hope my students would spend no more than a week going through the code.org process. In a high school computer science classroom, standards expect students to use higher-level coding languages to program and write code, so code.org may be a bit too basic.
I think that code.org would be useful in an elementary school or even a middle school setting. However, as a high school teacher, I think the program and methods need to be more sophisticated and mature to entice students to pursue a computer science degree. At the most, I would hope my students would spend no more than a week going through the code.org process. In a high school computer science classroom, standards expect students to use higher-level coding languages to program and write code, so code.org may be a bit too basic.