Lessons – Beep & Pixel

Give super-exact instructions to a friend who acts like a robot, and discover what an algorithm is.

Program a friend across a floor grid with Forward, Turn Left and Turn Right cards.

Spot repeating patterns in a dance and write them as short loops.

Play a Simon-Says style game and learn how computers make choices with if, then and else.

Put number cards in order by comparing only two at a time, just like a computer does.

Write a favourite word in binary using two colours of beads and make a secret code bracelet.

Colour a picture by numbers on squared paper and discover how computers store pictures as numbers.

Be a detective who finds and fixes bugs hiding in instructions and robot programs.

Play a two-player guessing game and discover the clever trick of cutting the choices in half each time.

Make a paper code wheel and use it to scramble and unscramble secret messages with a Caesar cipher.

Meet coding blocks that snap together like building bricks, and build your very first tiny script for Beep.

Put blocks in the right order so Beep can walk, turn and chat, and learn how to fix a script…