What We Do:

• Give people a safe place to ask questions and learn about code and computing.
• Build large-scale projects in teams
• Spread awareness about the benfits of learning to code throughout MHS.
• Support other MHS extra-curriculars with the use of technology and coding
• Display exemplary digital citizenship and advocate for digital safety.

What We DON'T Do:

• Pwn Newbs (We won't ever make you feel bad for asking questions and wanting to learn! It's the only way to get better.)
• Hack others' systems, accounts, or resources without their expressed written consent.
• Give out assignments. This isn't a class. However, you'll be expected to progress and build something that interestes you!
• Get distracted by other computer-y stuff. I'm looking at you Pokemon crowd.

Projects we are currently doing or will be doing

• Chrome extensions: MHS issues chromebooks to students, which means our extensions can have a big impact. For example, the school CIPA filter blocks a lot of relevant sites, but visiting a site to find that it's blocked is annoying and time-wasting. The school is like "we are going to build a firewall." We made a chrome extension that lets you know whether a link is blocked or not, and now our lives are bliss.
• Processing sketches: For most new members, byte club will be your first time coding, and processing/processing.js is an ideal way to begin as it allows you to write visual programs easily and immediately. You can make cool art, interactive demonstrations, and much more!
There's also a great processing curriculum and editor at Khanacademy.org
• Hackathons: These are events where programmers get together and build insane things in a short span of time (never send a human to do a machine's job). Some (unaffiliated) examples of hackathons you could attend are CodeDay or any listed at MLH.
• Website building: Even if you don't want to make websites, it's cool to understand how they work. Learning HTML/CSS is a great way to start! Khanacademy.org and Codecademy.org are good beginner tools.

Past Projects

• Impossible Game Challenge: We made a fun club project to put our Khanacademy programming skills to use. The club members made mini-challenges that were put together to make one big impossible game.
• Small personal sites: Enjoy our member websites in miniature form!
• Graduation seating arranger: Mrs. Billitier asked us to help her out when organizing which graduate sits where for graduation. This program is the start of our help.
• March Madness: We had an idea to make a programming leaderboard game similar to March Madness, but this is as far as we got.