Dubbed the Coding School for Girls, it was run by Cambridge University Computer Laboratory and Cambridge Coding Academy last week.
The intention of the one-week summer school, which was free, was to give the young programmers with little or no prior coding experience the opportunity to design and develop an online game, build Instagram-like image filters and program drones to fly semi-autonomously.
Dr Robert Harle, who helped organise the event, writes:
“We were really impressed with how excited, interested and creative the girls were. Starting from nothing, they were able to build a simple web game and then independently add new gameplay options, graphics, scoring mechanisms and all sorts of great additions we had never thought of.”
When asked whether the course had affected their perception of computer science, one of the girls commented:
“It’s made me want to learn to code so that I can write programs myself and don’t have to rely on resources. I see computing in a better light and find it more interesting; I now think I might take it for A-Level.”
Another student said coding “incorporates all the things I enjoy: maths, problem solving, creativity and design.”
The university was able to offer the summer school free-of-charge due to sponsorship by Sophos, CSR, Microsoft and RealVNC.
The Cambridge Coding Academy is supported by Cambridge Computer Laboratory, the Royal Society of Arts and The Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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