In 2022 while I was still teaching high school CS, I wrote a Python class called PaintBrush for my students to use. This took 20-30 minutes on a Sunday afternoon with my laptop and a cup of coffee. Today, that code could be written by Claude in 20-30
The CSTA conference this week was a ton of fun. Some highlights: * Chatting with teachers from the community * Catching up with friends from other companies * Not triggering my shellfish allergy despite New Orleans' best attempts * Crocheting (!) At the end of the 2025 conference, Devorah Zamansky described the Blanket Statement
Happy summer! We had a great school year, and hope you did too. See us at CSTA! We’ll be at the CSTA Annual Conference in New Orleans from July 13th to 15th. Stop by booth 400, we’ll have free mints, Pickcode stickers, and we’re hosting the Blanket
This week, we’re finishing our 3rd full school year with students using Pickcode, so it’s a nice time to look at some numbers! First, this year 27,000 new users signed up for the platform, bringing our all time total to 47,500. Those users created over 280,
It’s almost the end of the school year! AP exams are over, graduation ceremonies are happening, and summer is around the corner. Here's what we've been up to this month: Python 3.14 We’ve upgraded the Python version for our code runners to 3.
Our goal with Pickcode has always been to provide a reliable and lasting service for teachers. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we reached two important milestones in April: We reached 40,000 registered users, and we’ve signed our first contract with a customer that extends
So far, 2026 has been a great year for Pickcode. We’ve had 9,000 teachers and students sign up for the platform and users have run code over 1.5 million times! As always, our goal is to create a reliable and lasting resource for the CS teaching community.
In January, we mentioned we’ve been shoveling snow and watching the Patriots. The Patriots are finished, but the snow isn’t. Regardless, we’ve been hard at work improving Pickcode. In February, we added a few nice features to Pickcode Classroom while we continue working towards bigger goals for
Happy new year! Between shoveling snow and watching the Patriots (we’re based in Cambridge, MA), we’ve been hard at work improving Pickcode. This month we were mainly focused on bug fixes and minor improvements, and we’ll be working on bigger initiatives later on in the spring. If
Happy New Years! Our overarching goal for 2026 is to continue what we've been working on since we started Pickcode: creating the best platform for teaching and learning computer science. This month, we'll pass 30,000 registered users (as I type this, we're at
Reading files in Java is a new topic for the 2025-2026 exam. In this post, we'll review what we need to get started! Reading one line from a file To read one line, we import the necessary libraries from Java, add "throws IOException" to our
p5.js is a popular Javascript library for making visual designs and animations. With Pickcode's website editor, it's easy to get started. First, create a new HTML/CSS/JS website project in the sandbox, then we'll edit our files. index.html In our HTML