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Europe Code Week 2015 - Resources and guides EU Code Week is a grass-root movement run by volunteers who promote coding in their countries as Code Week Ambassadors. Anyone – schools, teachers, libraries, code clubs, businesses, public authorities – can organise a #CodeEU event and add it to the codeweek.eu map. To make organising and running coding events easier, we have prepared different toolkits and selected some of the best lesson plans, guides and other resources.
Thank you very much for sharing Ourboox with your community!!! We are the simplest platform anywhere for creating free, amazing, page-flipping picture books (in addition to text and pictures, it's also easy to embed videos, maps, puzzles, etc.). Thanks so much, Mel Rosenberg, co-founder by melrosenberg Oct 8