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The Primary Challenge (Autumn 2013)

This edition of the Computing at School newsletter focuses on teaching computing in primary schools, and contains articles covering:

*Pedagogy of computing in primary schools

*National curriculum programme of study

*Game design in the primary classroom

*Primary – secondary transition projects

*Enchanting – programming of Lego NXT using Scratch

*Scratch, Flowol and hardware interfaces for line following robots

*Scratch, Lego WeDo and Picoboards

*Algebra and art – Fibonnaci sequences with Scratch

*STEM education strategy and CCITE

*The history of CAS and the Network of Excellence

*Teaching programming

*Scalable Game Design

*Minecraft in the classroom

*Tips for using the Raspberry Pi and Piface

*MIT App Inventor

*National Cipher Challenge

*Concepts of digital systems

*GCSE Computing

*Computing events for girls

*The Visible Academic Computer (VISIAC), an online computer simulator

*Google Computer Science for High Schools (CS4HS)

*CPD in Scotland

*Language, by Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN)

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