Code For Life is an educational initiative which aims to provide tools and materials to help teachers deliver the computing elements of the UK National Curriculum. As well as a range of teaching packs, Code For Life has developed Rapid Router: a browser-based game aimed at children aged 5–11 that uses the visual programming language Blockly to teach the basic concepts of programming.
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History
Code For Life was founded in 2014 by volunteers at Ocado Technology, after a survey of 250 UK primary schools discovered that the majority did not have adequate access to resources or training to teach the new Computer Science curriculum. It was made open-source in 2015.
Rapid Router
Code For Life's first programming game, Rapid Router, teaches children the basic concepts of programming by having them guide a van through a series of increasingly complicated routes, giving them feedback on the route taken and the algorithm used. Players first learn concepts using the visual programming language Blockly before learning to translate those concepts into Python, a popular general-purpose language, to prepare them for further learning.