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"Code Hero is a game that teaches you how to make games and save the world with a code ray that shoots Javascript. Become a code hero and shape the future! Code Hero is a co-op first-person science shooter where you use the code ray to manipulate code. Your code ray can copy code like new items and fire it like ammunition to do new things. You can edit new code to do anything you can imagine. You'll learn how to blast the enemy, manipulate the world, and build structures creatively to create the games of your dreams and recruit an army of coders to save the world from rogue AI. "

Crunchzilla is a fun way for all students to learn how to painlessly write JavaScript programs. It offers three different interactive tutorials where kids and adults can play with code, experiment, build, and learn. Code Monster is for younger children, ages 9-14, and for curious adults. Code Monster is the easiest tutorial. Code Maven is for ages 13 and up and is harder than Code Monster with more difficult problems, more depth, and more explanation. Game Maven is for adults and older teens who have some programming experience. Game Maven is a step-by-step tutorial for writing three different video games.

"Code School teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts."

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.A nice free site that allows users to learn to code for creating websites, games, apps, etc.  This is done in step by step instructions and a user can track their progress.

Use Edge Code to live update website. It's open source and it's free!!

Created by Smashing Media in Germany, this website offers treasures for artists and techies, sharing resources like new free fonts. Founded in 2006, this site speaks mainly to Web designers and developers, with posts on creative and technical themes like emotional design and responsive design. Also helpful are the coding Q&A on CSS and the Best of Coding and Best of Design sections, with thoughts on usability, mobile design and more.

resources from TCEA on using QR codes

"Downloaded more than 500 thousand times, Learn Python The Hard Way is proving to be an effective and fun book for learning to code. If you've always wanted to learn programming but failed in the past, then this is your next book."

"Sign up for Code Year to start receiving a new interactive programming lesson every Monday. You'll be building apps and websites before you know it!"

Is a visual program editor that reminds me a lot of Alice Storytelling and Scratch, in that a user arranges blocks of code to create an action.

"Play My Code is an online platform for building, playing and distributing browser games. Powered by HTML5, you can build within the browser and embed your games anywhere."

"This site provides sample course content and tutorials for Computer Science (CS) students and educators on current computing technologies and paradigms."

"This is the code repository for JES, the Jython Environment for Students. It is an educational IDE used in the Media Computation curriculum developed by Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson at Georgia Tech. More details on the curriculum are available at http://www.mediacomputation.org/."

Great for multiple grade levels!

The Hour of Code features great resources for ages 6 to 100 to learn how to create simple or complex programs, beginning with drag-and-drop programming.

"Build software better, together. Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects."

"With the iOS SDK, you can get started developing your iOS application for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch today. Access the iOS Dev Center for a wealth of resources including videos, sample code, technical documentation, Apple Developer Forums, and more."