Coding in the
simplest of terms, is telling a computer what you want it to do.
So writing a
code is like telling the computer what to do. Coding is integral to every
website, app, calculator, or any digital product. Slowly jobs, which are not
related to computer science like banking or journalism, are going to require
basic knowledge of coding too.
“Everybody
should know how to program a computer as that teaches us how to think!” says Steve Jobs.
In the coding
week held from 6th to 10th of Feb students as well as parents participated in a
number of activities.
The KG kids and
older were introduced to the concept of coding through games. Here one player
was blindfolded and the other was supposed to guide the partner to a specified
destination by giving instructions. This game made it completely clear that
coding is nothing but instructions to the computer, and it’ll do whatever we
want it to.
While grades 4
and 5 were introduced to Scratch Programming, Primary teachers too tried their
hand at coding and got hooked. Yet the
highest point of the week was the Parent-Hour of Code, where about 40 parents
enthusiastically participated with their children and attempted coding for the
first time. It was a delight watching all the adults as eager as children,
trying to figure out the right path or the correct conditional statements to
reach the destination at each level.
The seniors with
their inter-house debugging challenge, the middle school with their robotics
competition, the STEM challenge, and the finale of games, robots and posters made
at home and showcased at school - truly it seems Pathways Noida spent a
glorious week coding away to glory.
