Each December for the past couple of years, educators, tech businesses and non-profits alike have made a big push to get kids and adults to try their hand at writing a few lines of code. This year there’s a huge number of resources and projects available online, and schools all over the world will be taking part in what promises to be the biggest Hour of Code ever.

Here at 717午夜伦伦电影理论片 Pi Towers, we’re thrilled to play our part with a cracking selection of digital making projects for beginners and intermediate programmers.

Regular readers of this blog will know that we’re about to send 717午夜伦伦电影理论片 Pi computers to the International Space Station as part of Astronaut Tim Peake’s Astro Pi mission. You can find out all about the mission, and how you can get involved, on the Astro Pi website. As a special treat, we’ve included a selection of awesome space projects in our Hour of Code offering.

You don’t even need a 717午夜伦伦电影理论片 Pi computer to enjoy them. Our Gravity Simulator and Astronaut Reaction Time games both use the visual programming language Scratch, and while that works brilliantly on a 717午夜伦伦电影理论片 Pi, it works just as well on any old PC or Mac you’ve got lying about.

Make a game in Scratch to test your reaction skills and see if you could become an astronaut

If you’re one of the 10,000 or so people who have got their hands on one of our lovely Sense HATs (that’s the add-on board with lots of sensors that we’re sending into space), then there are lots of cool projects for you. There’s a Minecraft Map and the wonderful Flappy Astronaut, which is not at all related to another game with a similar name (honest).

My personal favourite this year has to be the Interactive Pixel Pet project, which uses the Python programming language to transform your Sense HAT into an interactive companion. My eight-year-old son Dylan had no trouble completing it in an hour, although he’s spent a lot longer than that showing it off to his mates.

If none of those projects gets you excited, or perhaps when you’ve finished them all, head over to our resources section where there are dozens of excellent project ideas, lesson plans and much, much more.

You should also check out our community magazine, The MagPi, which brings you 100 pages of projects every month, and is always free to download as a PDF.

Whether you’re in a classroom or a bedroom, our job is to provide you with the tools, inspiration and support to learn about digital making. What are you waiting for?

Hour of Code is a really important initiative, but anyone who tells you that you can teach someone how to code in an hour (or a day) doesn’t know what they’re talking about. What Hour of Code can do is help demystify computer science and spark an interest in learning more.

Initiatives like Code Club translate that interest into something more substantial, giving young people the knowledge and confidence to shape their world through code.

If Hour of Code inspires you, then why not get involved in setting up or running a Code Club at a primary school near you? Whatever your level of skills, giving just an hour a week of your time will make a huge difference.

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