I like the iPad for many things.
But coding is not one of them.
An elementary teacher has 10 Circuit Playground Express. But the students have iPads. I have not found a way to do block coding (like makecode) with this combination.
I like turtle art for a coding exercise and there are a couple of browser based versions.
So let us try that.
https://www.playfulinvention.com/webturtleart/
I can touch on blocks and the description of them pops up. But I cannot drag them to code.
I tried Safari & Chrome.
Though the movement blocks do show what the commands will do (the turtle does that motion, as in it moves forward when you press “forward”
The other one I like is https://pencilcode.net/edit/first
This one I CAN actually drag the blocks and do the coding in Safari and Chrome.
The flaw is that when I “save” image (when using Chrome) and look at it (to print for kids) , the image is pixelated.
Using Safari, I cant get to “save image”… I have to use fingers to zoom in and take an actual screenshot (which has the grid in it)
So, I was a little disappointed today.
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