At Codecademy I led direction and development of two mobile apps as well as gave in-person tutorials and talks with the community at large about topics including learning to code, making a game, and engineering career advice.
Mobile Block Coding
Visual and tactile coding environment for mobile coding
Mobile Block Coding is a block and flow based visual coding environment for programming on mobile devices, allowing for users to code and run their own program right on from their phone. The app provides a coding experience with minimal typing and replaces text code units with visually and physically tactile code blocks drawing inspiration from Scratch, Max/MSP and other visual coding environments.
The system is flexible enough that with minimal effort it can represent any language. It also allows for building a course structure similar to Codecademy’s web class offerings.
Hour of Code
Codecademy: Hour of Code is Codecademy's introduction and engagement app for Code.org's Hour of Code 2013 initiative (the same year President Obama put out a call for children to participate 💙). Through interacting with simple Mad-Libs like exercises the app serves to expose people who have never programmed to what coding feels like and what sorts of things they can do with code .
The app has been featured on the Apple App Store over 25 times and spent time as the #1 Free Education App worldwide.
It was later renamed to Code Hour when Hour of Code was ™ed.
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