Code Club - Video with Scratch Games created by the Kids I was teaching at a local school

For the last couple months (May till June 2013) I have been running a  Code Club session at my daughter school.

Every wednesday at 3:30pm, I went there for 1h and taught 14 kids (Y3 till Y6) how to program Scratch (with a brave one doing some Python)

To wrap up the year, we did a presentation to the Key Stage 2 assembly, where we presented the video below (to show some examples of their efforts and creativity):

CodingLab Library at Union Jacks in Chiswick

After talking about the 'Open Library' for my RaspberryPi, Arduino, BeagleBone, Pyhton, CodeClub books and materials on the Chiswick High Road with Ed (Chiswick's Union Jack manager), I'm happy to say that he embraced the idea and gave us some nice (prime-location shelf) location downstairs to hold the first batch of Library books :)

This means that if you want to learn about:

• Scratch
• RaspberryPI
• Arduino
• BeagleBone
• Phyton
• Linux
• and others (OWASP, Android, Robotics)

... just pop in into Union Jack, grab a drink and take a look one of the available books:

Review of first CodeClub meetup in Chiswick (24th Jun 2013), with Scratch and RaspberryPI 'coding stations'

Following the 'Open Library' for my RaspberryPi, Arduino, BeagleBone, Pyhton, CodeClub books and materials on the Chiswick High Road idea and the creation of CodingLab , I organised a Code Club meetup at Chiswick's Union Jack which had a nice crowd and vibe.

Here are some pictures of this event and set-up

The day CodingLab.org was born

After brainstorming about the idea of 'Open Library' for my RaspberryPi, Arduino, BeagleBone, Pyhton, CodeClub books and materials on the Chiswick High Road with Sarah (my wife), she come up with the name of Coding Lab, as a better way to present the concept to local venues (with the added idea of doing regular/monthly lab sessions in there).

So I:

• did a quick DNS search,  
• found that CodingLab.org was available, 
• registered it, 
• created a GitHub repository for it https://github.com/O2platform/CodingLab
• added some GitHub Pages

and voila, here is the very first version of: http://CodingLab.org