Here at The Code Zone we have a very particular way of helping our members learn and improve their coding skills. It's called “Spiral Learning” due to the fact that we come back to concepts with new knowledge over and over again to reinforce and improve our skills. 

Spiral Learning In Our Clubs

What is Spiral Learning?

Before we dive too deep into why we think spiral learning is a great method to learn, perhaps we should describe a little more about how it works!

To pull from one of our favourite topics, video games, let’s say that early on we fight a big heavily armoured knight, and that knight is taking very little damage from us whacking it with our sword. Luckily we just learned a neat new magical attack, which deals massive amounts of damage. Later on, we fight another heavily armoured knight, this time wearing red armour. Although they look a little different we’ve still learned that magic is the way to go so we use it and win easily!

How does this work in club?

That idea works for our code cards too! We might have one game where we build a lives system to let us keep playing a game after a mistake, and then at a later point we have another game that has a lives system to be added. While the two games may look a little different in how they implement them, the fundamentals are the same.

We come back to these ideas and concepts over and over again, using new things we’ve learned to augment them and giving us a sense of progression and learning! Even at our highest level clubs, our members still circle back and reinforce the learning that they started at the very beginning. 

How does Spiral Learning benefit our members?

We find that allowing our members to learn this way, means that they can still get the excitement of learning something new each week, all while circling back to relearn and reinforce the things they have done in the past!

If the way we learn sounds interesting to you, sign up now for a free taster session!