Kyung Hee University Opens Free Coding Classes for Middle School Students

Middle school students will get a free introduction to coding at Kyung Hee University, taught in part by a university student who wrote books on making games and digital artwork with Entry, a block-based programming platform.

The program, titled “I Am an Entry Game Developer” and “I Am an Entry Artist,” will take place at the university’s International Campus College of Electronics and Information. It will run for six three-hour sessions in September, with close guidance available for students who have never studied coding before.

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It is a meaningful opportunity for a university student author to teach coding directly to young people. We will continue various software-sharing programs with the local community.

Participants will make seven games while learning programming concepts including variables, signals, coordinates, functions, loops, recursive functions and lists. In the final two sessions, they will plan and produce their own games and present the results.

Kyung Hee’s Software-Centered University Project Group describes the classes as part of a broader effort to share AI and software education with the community, including local schools and families. Lee Young-ho, the software convergence student who will teach the course, said, “The process of meeting students and studying coding together with a textbook I wrote myself is deeply meaningful.” Group director Cho Jin-sung said, “It is a meaningful opportunity for a university student author to teach coding directly to young people. We will continue various software-sharing programs with the local community.”

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The process of meeting students and studying coding together with a textbook I wrote myself is deeply meaningful.