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How to Get Kids Started with Coding
Your child may already be learning the basics of coding in school or an after-school program, but here’s how to help her hone her skills at home.
https://www.parents.com/kids/education/math-and-science/how-to-get-kids-started-with-coding/
Also, consider The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1.
This is episode 1 of a 10-episode narrative which follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles.
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I just had a look at code.org and ted that you post! They look like they are great for kids, especially younger kids! Just what I need!
What is even better is they are free!
Thanks! Paul-
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Glad to hear! ????
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Start with scratch in any age. It will learn how to get basic understanding of how each element of a program needs to be told what to do.
Scratch is made by MIT
If you want to proceed with game program:
You can start with ReadyMaker with Unity export. And get free classes from YouTube of unity shop for free.
On osx Apple user get Xcode and swift playgrounds to learn about the big ecosystem on Apple devices.
Want to get more broader learn Python.
https://inventwithpython.com/ Or study on python turtle with repl.it so you don’t have to install anything.
Want to work with your hands and brains?
Use cozmo from Anki with iPad and computer.
You are able to program with python and steer a movable robot with speech and camera.
Want to keep it simpler use microbits hardware with JavaScript or python or scratch style programming
Want to get deeper
Go to code.org for deeper lessons and app building. Or check projects.raspberrypi.org
Or free codecamp.
What ever you learn use journaling and mindmap to get an idea of what you know and where your skills gap is.
Journaling will give you hope when you get stuck and want to give up. You read back on earlier lessons and get hope of where you started.
Want to get more advanced?
Learn git gitlab and GitHub deploy a simpel hello world app. Or get on pythonanywhere with a website. Get to know DigitalOcean or ci/cd concepts. Study AWS and kubernetes.
And uml. For game dev study Unity and unreal and blender.
That is my advice. Study be curious and enjoiy and be happy of being an developer. No matter if you copy exciting software concept for learning purpose. Or made something small move blink or whatever. Enjoy the experience.
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Wow! Fantastic post. I love the spectrum you have covered. Thank you.
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Thankyou for these ideas. My son loves Scratch, but I was kind of wondering what he could progress to next, as this appears to be where his greatest interest and talent may lie… but it isn’t mine at all, so I’m kind of flying blind here!
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Nothing quite like an enquiring young mind? ????
I’m not too sure of the target level we are aiming at with your son but I hear that Micro:bit is easy to kickstart and works well with makecode to inject life into your son’s code. Could this possibly be the next step?
https://www.edtechs.com.au/pages/micro-bit?gclid=Cj0KCQjwmdGYBhDRARIsABmSEePwyWePCbx0HABGQEMxyBHwZXM3DJo69OVsg6rS23VbOoBXsYZVyXQaAq3VEALw_wcB
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