These projects are designed to introduce students to basic programming using block-style programming editors.

Students will complete Mr. Didier’s Express Course in Code.org to learn the basics of block style programming. 

1. Go to the website, code.org.
2. Click on the My Dashboard tab
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the Classroom Sections I’ve Joined.
4. In the Join a Section area enter the follow Section Code: TYCGTV
5. You should then see this section in your My Dashboard tab.
6. Complete the whole course. You can skip the offline projects as we do similar things in class. Completing the whole course can take up to 6 weeks, or 3 projects. 

The Code.org course will most likely take multiple weeks/projects to complete. The normal sequencing for the course is below.

1. Project #1 (2 weeks) 
   1. Sequencing
   2. Sprites
   3. Events
2. Project #2 (2 weeks)
   1. Loops
   2. Conditionals
   3. Functions
3. Project #3 (2 weeks)
   
   1. Variables
   2. For Loops
   3. End of Course Project

Sites other than code.org.

Code.org is free and a good place to start. It has tutorials that walk you through everything. Scratch is block-style programming, but has few tutorials to guide you. If you want more block-style programming but are not quite ready to jump to Scratch you can try these sites. You can create an account for free and do some work for free. At some point, though, you will run out of the free tutorials and will have to pay to continue. You can at least try them out for free.

1. CodeMonkey
2. CodeCombat