{"id":7232,"date":"2020-11-03T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2020-11-03T10:44:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:44:01","slug":"coding-gettin-our-groove-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=7232","title":{"rendered":"Coding &#8211; Gettin&#8217; Our Groove On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P4-7 have been busy applying their computational thinking to programme dance animations. Computational thinking allows us to take a problem, understand what the problem is and develop solutions. We can then present these solutions in a way that a computer, a human, or both, can understand.<\/p>\n<p>The children have been using and applying logic skills to create algorithms with sequenced coding command blocks.\u00a0 They have had to filter unnecessary lines of code using abstraction and then debug their coding algorithm to ensure it satisfies the task requirement.\u00a0 Busy bees!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7232 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=7237'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/03104205\/ALOE-2-coding.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=7236'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/03103856\/IW-2-coding.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=7235'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/03103805\/RR-coding.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=7234'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/03103800\/IW-coding.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=7233'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/03103755\/ALOE-coding.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Copy and paste the links below to watch a sample of their avatars boogie on down!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/studio.code.org\/s\/dance-extras-2019\/stage\/1\/puzzle\/2<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/studio.code.org\/projects\/dance\/eIm3Fhr4kU7Oa0tOWvFjJLiWpeIndXmVg7Ax9qKIpEw\/edit<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/studio.code.org\/s\/dance-extras-2019\/stage\/1\/puzzle\/9<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/studio.code.org\/projects\/dance\/4wvhLTrMrzvMlH-q5KDa0indo-urM09uJQ-n6J8Nk3A\/edit<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/studio.code.org\/projects\/dance\/owXcOnfDI9KqbSYmG9MoeoSmH7JAqs2r7Gfe42yfbVo\/edit<\/p>\n<h1>Successful Learners<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P4-7 have been busy applying their computational thinking to programme dance animations. Computational thinking allows us to take a problem, understand what the problem is and develop solutions. We can then present these solutions in a way that a computer, a human, or both, can understand. The children have been using and applying logic skills &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=7232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coding &#8211; Gettin&#8217; Our Groove On!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}