if your school is new to codingthere are plenty of free resources to get started even for teachers without computer science backgroundone quick way to get started is with tynker' hour of code tutorials hour of code is global movement that reaches millions of students in more than countries an initiative designed to get more kids engaged in computer sciencehour of code traditionally takes place during computer science education week in december but your child' school can run their own hour of code at any timeyou can help organize an hour of code for your child' school or your community with the help of our coding activities we created our hour of code tutorials with view to inspire and motivate beginning programmers children who know nothing about coding and are perhaps wary of it kids find it easy to drag and drop our visual code blocks to create simple gamesstoriesanimationsand more running an hour of code is great way to demystify the concept of programmingprovide early successesand share the positive impact of computer science education and when your child' class is ready to move beyond an hour of codebe sure to check out our full coding curriculum for schools