Comments on: Create anytime, anywhere with OctoStudio

By: Natalie Rusk

Natalie Rusk — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:13:00 +0000

In reply to Phuti Ragophala. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and thoughtful reasons for using OctoStudio with the children in your community, Phuti! We have been grateful to collaborate on its development with the Creative Coding team at Faculty of Education at University of Johannesburg, including Linford Molaodi. We hope to continue to learn from your experience supporting learners in your community to create and share projects. Sending many well wishes from MIT, Natalie

By: Peter Mathijssen

Peter Mathijssen — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 04:49:43 +0000

You can use OctoStudio together with MicroBlocks, which is a blocks programming language for physical computing inspired by Scratch, to control microcontrollers, using BLE, which gives a lot of possibilities. We also use it at our CoderDojo.

By: Phuti Ragophala

Phuti Ragophala — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:48:19 +0000

Ever since I was introduced and trained in Octo Studio by university of Johannesburg coding facilitators, I never looked back. I immediately fell in love with it. Here are the reasons that attracted my attention:
– It’s inclusive and embraces indigenous and African languages.
– It offers a variety of sprites.
– It includes numerous loops.
– The backdrops reflect various cultures.
– You can save your project as a video or document.
– It’s shareable on various platforms.
I like it so much for the children in my community and rural who can not access coding resources because its accessible in play store. I see it as a vehicle to guide our rural learners, more especially girls, toward brighter futures and potential careers.