Materials you can use in your computing summer camps and workshops

Free Materials:

CS Unplugged - -http://csunplugged.org- has activites that you can use to introduce computing concepts without even using the computer.
Scratch is free software from MIT that allows students to create 2D animations and games using drag-and-drop programming.
Alice is free software from CMU that allows students to create 3D movies and games using drag-and-drop programming. There are several different versions of Alice. Storytelling Alice was created for middle school girls. Alice 3 should be stable for summer 2014.
Media Computation was developed at Georgia Tech and it teaches programming concepts by having students write textual programs in Python (or Java) to manipulate media (pictures, sounds, movies, and text).
Greenfoot - a system that makes it easy to create 2D simulations and games in Java. I would use this with high school or advanced middle school.
App Inventor - free software from MIT that lets you create apps for Android devices. It also has an emulator so you don't have to have a phone per student. You can use it with high school or middle school. For middle school have the user interface done.

For middle school students we recommend:

For high school students we recommend:

Materials for Computing Summer Camps last edited on 24 February 2015 at 11:53 am by lawn-128-61-36-244.lawn.gatech.edu