Scratchis a programming language that allows kids to create interactive stories, games and animations in a very visual, drag and drop manner. What’s wonderful about Scratch is not just the power of how much can be created with it, but also the community your kids will join when they begin...
we need to use an approachsuitable to their needs. Adults’ coding courses usually start with explaining building blocks, such as data types, variables, and functions, however this teaching methoddoesn’t fit well with most kids.
Players move colorful turtles around the board by “programming” them with a set of command cards. But while the kids choose the cards that dictate whether the critters go forward, right, or left, parents are the ones actually executing the commands. Kids learn the basics of coding logic ...
The idea has been in development for around a year. It was originally planned for a family centre in Montreal, “we wanted to teach those kids how to code and the mindset and logic of programming,” but then Ubisoft spread its ambitions and decided to make it available to the world. ...
No Starch Press has published a book to help parents do exactly that, Teach Your Kids to Code. As their subtitle says, it’s a parent-friendly guide to Python programming. It also happens to be an excellent guide to learn Python if you’re single, elderly, a Martian, and otherwise don...
If we want to set our children up for success, every child should learn to code. Coding for kids has many benefits that stretch far beyond the computer screen. From critical thinking, creativity, and persistence, find out how to get your kids on the path
Who says adults can’t learn from the same STEAM/STEM toys and video games that get kids hooked? After all, these products are designed to teach coding logic and syntax without boring easily-distracted children. If you want to better understand the relationship between hardware and software, th...
Scratch, like Alice, and Etoys, was developed to make learning the logic and concepts of programming easy and allow the student to move past the frustrating and tight syntax requirements of more advanced computer languages like C. Scratch is much more forgiving, intuitive, and immediately rewarding...
Tynker helps kids solve the puzzle Tynker(free) turns things up a notch, with a visual programming method that is capable of creating some impressive games and tools. There’s a free app that you can grab to try it out on your own, but Tynker also has bigger ambitions with ase...
Probably not. Yet still, many of these kids have only a vague idea of what makes a computer tick. It also appears that, for the most part, kids don't get into the inner workings of programming until secondary school. Why is that? If children can learn second and third human languages...