From left: Camp Facilitators, Leo-Neil Perry and Brandon Alleyne and Interim Executive Director of the CSF, Professor Cardinal Warde as they paid attention to the students presenting their projects
Some of the students and parents that came out to the presentation Saturday evening.
Students show off their newly acquired skills
After 13 weeks of hard work, the students of the Caribbean Science Foundation Pilot Coding Camp got to show off what they learned during the camp.
During a brief delivery of remarks at the presentation recently, which took place at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus yesterday evening, co-facilitator, Leo-Neil Perry gave a brief overview of what he described as a 13-week coding adventure.
“As we rounded the curve to the steep mountain slope, learning how to create website content using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), interests peeked and creative juices began to flow.
“With bright eyes, everyone was ready to explore, walking along the winding path less travelled, finding different ways of making normally dull content visually appealing using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). As we mounted the hill at the end of the winding path, we slipped slightly on the wet JavaScript stones. We held hands to steady our balance, and dug deep using pieces of JavaScript to aid our progress in creating dynamic webpages. This process was firmly grounded in interactivity and usability,” he said.
Perry expressed that he believed this experience was a success as students were now able to use application developmental tools such as Iconic Creator, Iconic Command Line Interface, Visual Studio Code and Android Studio and Innovative mobile applications to create their final projects.
Six, two-person teams presented their project and the general consensus among them was that they were pleased to have been a part of the camp and were proud of the number of things they had learned.
One of the teams, “Team Guys That Game”, which comprised of Aston Hinkson and Rane Billett-Federiksen produced a webpage that was described as a hub for video games where gamers could go to the webpage and search for new and old video games.
Alem Best and Derrian Frederick, Team “Recite to Recipe”, created an app, which was currently available in the Android App store, that allowed users to enter recipes, edit and view them and make simple to cook recipes on the phone.
Team “The Alienators”, which comprised of Sanjay Mahabir and Juliet Holder, created a webpage called “Alien Spacecraft” and “The Modern Home Web Control”, designed to encourage students to use their coding to create interactive objects.