Once we have the necessary resources and equipment, the most important and expected moment of all comes: start programming with Scratch. At these early ages it is vital that learning be meaningful and also fun. If we get the child to learn Scratch while having fun, we have a good chance ...
Teach Your Kids Basic Programming With Super Scratch Programming AdventureRuth Suehle
I see lots of comments on programming sites of parents teaching younger kids but personally, I'd wait, they're going to spend years sitting in front of screens, do you really want to encourage it earlier? My 9 year old could do fun things with Scratch and of course teens and older chi...
In the second article in this series, youcreated your first few video game scripts in Scratch. This article explores ways to expand programming's possibilities to create more advanced code. There are multiple ways to introduce these skills to kids, such as: ...
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Programming lessons with kids have to be short. One or two 45-minute lessons per week is enough. High school kids should be able to study more, but I do not have such experience yet. Illustrations help. In my book I've included lots of color cartoon-like characters that are like a ...
Makeblock mBot Educational Robot Kit: teaches you about graphical programming, electronics, and robotics. It has 38 parts that can be assembled in 10 seconds. Its programming interface is based on Scratch 2.0. Project Bloks: a modular platform to teach tangible programming to kids. It is a modu...
including public schools and libraries, to make access for those that want to learn programming universal. This doesn't have to be expensive - in fact, many of the physical devices are in place. But we need to open up access to kids so that they can use, program, and remix them on ...
For older kids, a better option than a readymade kit might be a introductory programming book like the well-reviewed Python for Kids and this basic Raspberry Pi setup. That will give them plenty of room to grow for years to come, and there's certainly no shortage of other uses for a Ra...
Scratch also comes preloaded with a bunch of complete programs, so you can see what's possible with this package. This also introduces the concept of code reuseability to kids since they can take a program that already exists and bend it to their needs or wants. ...