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SuaCode Africa

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Description

A two-month smartphone-based online programming curriculum developed for high school students, university students, and recent graduates in Africa and the diaspora, using Processing and the APDE Android app.

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  • SuaCode: a 2-month smartphone-based online programming course for African high school, university, and recent-graduate learners: SuaCode Africa is described as "a 2-month online programming course targeted at high school, university, and recent graduates living in Africa and the diaspora." It is a smartphone-based coding curriculum covering basic programming concepts such as variables, conditionals, loops, functions, classes, objects, and arrays, taught in the Processing language (an open-source, Java-based language), with students writing and running programs in the APDE Android app. The course was the setting for the motivation survey analyzed in this poster. (Michael Addo et al. (2026))

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Key Sources

  • Michael Addo, Nana Maryam Munagah, Victor Kumbol, Judith Uchidiuno, and George Boateng. (2026). “Why SuaCode?”: Understanding African Students’ Motivations for Taking a Smartphone-Based Online Coding Course. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22940
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title SuaCode Africa
description A two-month smartphone-based online programming curriculum developed for high school students, university students, and recent graduates in Africa and the diaspora, using Processing and the APDE Android app.
status review
product_kind curriculum
generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-11
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