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User guide for hands-on coding activities for varying skill levels

Since there are various resources for practising coding, in the following pages, we
will only refer to some of them, aiming to convey general logical concepts that, in
practice, are considered applicable through each of the available resources.

A learning journey starting from elementary operations

A very gradual way to approach the coding world with a step-by-step guide that

takes us by the hand into the coding realm is definitely the one proposed by
code.org. Within the website, it provides not only educational units with examples
and exercises but also a section specifically dedicated to a gradual learning path
suitable for everyone (especially recommended for beginners and when wanting

to stimulate curiosity towards this discipline). At the end of the course, a
customizable official certificate is also issued with the participant's name.

A page from the student section of An example of a step-by-step
code.org, providing access to a exercise/guide on how to create a
complete path of step-by-step simple visual block code.
exercises for ages 5-7 (pre-reader).

The infinite possibilities of the most widely used coding application: initial
experiments with “Scratch”

As previously described, we can now assert that the most acclaimed application
in the field of educational coding is “Scratch”, whose development by MIT has
contributed to the birth and widespread adoption of the concept of educational
coding as we know it today. To the extent that the terms "coding" and

"Scratch" are often used interchangeably as if they were synonymous.

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