Code Jumper: Accessible hands-on computing
A truly accessible programming device to code stories with sounds using hands-on connections and a block coding language.
Code Jumper is a kit with a base, play, pause, and choose elements that can be plugged together to build a story with sounds.
Designed with young, visually impaired students in mind, it is an excellent tool to use in any beginning programming experience.
Although it is rather expensive, special education funds can be used to support the purchase.
it includes step by step lessons to teach key concepts in comptuer science to young and beginning students.
It comes with a very compresensive set of lessons. Above is a program to pay a short tune. The percussion is looped and the piano sounds are sequential
You can see the program in action below.. The lesson demonstrated at the hands-on playground was lesson #7.