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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on January 12, 2017January 12, 2017

Applying the sassy skills

Having completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course last night (see previous blog post), Simon independently downloaded SASS on his new laptop this morning and built a website in his text … Continue reading Applying the sassy skills

Categories: Code Academy, Coding, CSS, MilestonesTags: Code Academy, Coding, CSS, SASS, web development
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on January 12, 2017January 12, 2017

Sassy! And sassy English, too!

Simon completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course in just one evening last night! SASS is part of CSS. This morning he applied the skills he acquired in the course to … Continue reading Sassy! And sassy English, too!

Categories: Coding, CSS, html, MilestonesTags: Code Academy, Coding, CSS, English, html, SASS, web development
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 1, 2016

Code Hour app

Simon suddenly picked up his old Code Hour app tonight and was done with all the exercises within something like 40 minutes. I had tried introducing him to this app before, … Continue reading Code Hour app

Categories: Code Academy, Coding, html, JavaScriptTags: Code Academy, Code Hour
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 23, 2016

Code Academy JavaScript Courses

On Thursday and Friday Simon started a new course on Code Academy, this time in Java Script! The first tasks have been quite interesting. I especially likes the one about moon … Continue reading Code Academy JavaScript Courses

Categories: Code Academy, Coding, JavaScript, MilestonesTags: Code Academy, Coding, JavaScript
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 19, 2016October 19, 2016

Code Academy Python Courses (Continued)

Over the past week Simon has made some more progress in his Python courses. By now he has completed 5 courses. The level of the last few lessons is quite … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses (Continued)

Categories: Code Academy, Coding, PythonTags: Code Academy, Coding, Python
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 12, 2016

Code Academy Python Courses, Day 2.

Today we had a much busier day as we had to bike for two hours to get Simon to his Scratch programming class. That said, Code Academy still largely ruled … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses, Day 2.

Categories: Arduino, Code Academy, Coding, PythonTags: Code Academy, Coding, Python
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 12, 2016October 12, 2016

Code Academy Python Courses

Tuesday morning I briefly showed Code Academy’s website to Simon: “Look, you can learn to code in Python right here. And here’s a list of other coding languages”, – I … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses

Categories: Code Academy, Coding, PythonTags: Code Academy, Coding, Python

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