Hour of Code Activities
Using the Wolfram Language

From the makers of Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica

Introduce your students to our powerful and easy-to-use programming language with engaging activities for all learners. In no time, they’ll be creating amazing programs with just a few lines of code in Wolfram Programming Lab.

Teaching the Hour of Code

In one hour with the Wolfram Language, your students can create sounds with various instruments, interesting picture patterns, strange new words, and much more!

The Wolfram Cloud provides free access to get started programming.
Start with one of these interactive Explorations:

Get Started

Learn Wolfram Language basics with five quick examples

Draw A Sphere

Create a sphere, rotate it in 3D and change its color

wikipedia word clouds

Make a word cloud, modify it and share it online

Activities from hourofcode.com

Random Melodies

Sound of Pi

Draw a Polygon

Age in Days

Wolfram Language Projects on Raspberry Pi

Day and Night

Create an interactive map that shows where in the world it is daytime, where it is nighttime and when each country switches between day and night.

Hieroglyphics Keyboard

Create a keyboard to type in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Coin and Dice

Make a coin flipper and a dice roller. Work with graphics, interactivity and randomness.

Facial Recognition

Use simple classification and machine learning to find out which Harry Potter character you look the most like!

Crossword Solver

Create a tool that will help solve crossword puzzles. Input the letters and blank spaces, and the tool will give a list of words that match the pattern.