1. Hour of Code Event Training
Scott Burmester | Sr. MSP Program Lead
Brian Swan | Sr. Academic Content PM

2. Meet Scott Burmester | @burmester_scott‏
Current Life
Sr. MSP Program Lead
Responsible for WW Microsoft Student Developer Community
Husband, father (2 girls, 14 and 11 yrs.)
Fair-weather runner and softball coach
Past Lives
Program Manager in Public Sector Edu
Product Manager in Edu Product Group
Six year tour of duty in DPE
Ridgewood “High” Graduate

3. Meet Brian Swan | ‏@brian_swan
Current Life
Academic Content Program Manager
Responsible for developer content in Microsoft IT Academy
Husband, father (2 boys, 11 and 9 yrs.)
Fair-weather cyclist, runner
Past Lives
Teacher (high school math, computer science)
Support engineer
Technical writer
Squash player

4. What is Hour of CodeTM? Code.org sponsored campaign to demystify code
Students globally participate in 1-hour introductory experiences
Last year reached 20 million students, this year it is a global campaign to get 100 million students of all ages
More information
YouTube videos by Code.org
Search for “hour of code” and look for “by Code.org”
Scott

5. What is Microsoft doing for Hour of Code?
Microsoft is a lead supporter of this global movement; helping students discover how coding can be a catalyst to create and achieve great things.
Building 1-hour introductory experiences
App Studio:
TouchDevelop:
Kodu:
Teaching Computer Science
Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS)
Scott

6. What will you do for Hour of Code?
Facilitate a 1-hour introductory experience!
When: Week of Dec. 8-12
Where: Local schools, community centers, or on campus
Who: Target audience is year olds
What: Event is based on a TouchDevelop tutorial
How: Content to help you is in the download* for this training
Event manual (overview, prerequisites, timelines/scripts, FAQ)
PowerPoint decks
* Contents will be updated prior to Dec. 8
Spoiler Alert! You don’t need any coding experience. 
Scott

7. What are the event prerequisites?
After arranging a location and audience
You will need:
Participants will need:
Scott

8. What is the flow of an event?
Option 1 (default)
5 min.
2 min.
30 min.
15 min.
10 min.
Introductory Slides
MVA Course
Intro Module
TouchDevelop Interactive Tutorial
Customization module
Next Steps slide, Q & A
Option 2 (extended)
5 min.
2 min.
30 min.
15-20 min.
10 min.
Brian
If you have limited time, just send students to the TouchDevelop Interactive Tutorial:
Introductory Slides
MVA Course
Intro Module
TouchDevelop Interactive Tutorial
Next Steps Slide, Q & A
Customization Slides
(You lead customization)
Prepare at: aka.ms/how2customize

9. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
How should you prepare?
Read the Event Manual!
Lots of helpful information
Rehearse
If you will lead customizations, plan/rehearse what you will show.
Get familiar with TouchDevelop
The more you know, the better you can lead.
Create a Plan B
What will you do if something goes wrong?
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Remember, make it fun!
Scott

10. What is the TouchDevelop tutorial, exactly?
Students fix a broken game by writing code to add/change functionality.
The topics that are touched on include…
Code as a set of instructions
Syntax (object, function, parameter, variable)
The coordinate system
Events
Conditionals
Loops
Brian
Do a partial demo of the tutorial (first 3,4 steps, then take them to the end).

11. Tips and Tricks TouchDevelop works with touchscreen and mouse/keyboard
Sign in to TouchDevelop
Sign in with Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo!, or Google account
In the TouchDevelop tutorial, expand videos to full screen
Go to MVA in “in-private” mode (IE) or “incognito” mode (Chrome)
Closed Captions are always on in IE.
Brian

12. What about localization?
Will localized content be available?
Yes.
What languages?
When will it be available?
Dec. 1
Chinese
Spanish
Arabic
Brazilian Portuguese
German
France
Russian
Polish
Japanese
Turkish
Dutch
Korean
Scott
Simplified Chinese
Spanish (LATAM)
Arabic
Br. Portuguese
German
French
Russian
Polish
Japanese
Turkish
Dutch
Korean

13. Remember… Prepare Make it fun Look for updated materials on Dec. 1
Scott

14. Additional Resources www.imagine.Microsoft.com
(live in early December)
Scott and Brian