Code for children - tools that help to teach kids coding

Software is the language of our world. In the future, not knowing the language of computers will be as challenging as being illiterate or innumerate are today. /Dan Crow/

A lot of parents want their childrens to learn a little about programming. We would like to collect – with your help – of ideas and resources that might help to teach kids about computer technology.

10 Cool STEM Tech Toys For Kids
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A Parent’s Guide To Computer Programming Books For Kids
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Why you should teach your kids to code and 4 apps free apps that can help
Parents should encourage their children to start with the basics of coding from a young age, says John Luis, head of academics at ADvTECH Schools, a division of South Africa’s...
Code Jumper – Inspiring Visually Impaired Kids to Learn Coding
This month Satya Nadella CEO at Microsoft shared the examples of tools that reflect the diverse experiences of customers and employees. Mainly how advances in technology can b...
Cheap But Powerful, The Tiny micro:bit Computer Thrills At Oracle Code 4 Kids
A dozen teenagers in military fatigues sit quietly fiddling with small devices in antistatic bags, waiting, like the other kids around them, for further instruction. A teacher...
How to Introduce Your Kid to Coding Without a Computer
Photo: Shutterstock If you want to teach your kid how to code, there’s certainly no shortage of apps, iPad-connected toys, motorized kits and programmable pets that you can...
Piper Computer Kit 2 teaches kids STEM skills with a DIY kit
Teaching kids how to code is considered one of the core skills for the 21st Century, helping children develop the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) tools...
Microsoft, Minecraft Camp; Treasure: Teaching Kids to Code
Everybody should learn to code. That’s a statement that we’ve been hearing a lot for the past 3-4 years. From an article we got back in 2016, to the numerous workshops and hac...
Kids With Vision Loss Learn How To Jump Into Programming
Programs that teach kids how to code are popular right now. But, what about kids who are blind or visually impaired? They have Code Jumper, a new program that teaches kids ba...
Kiwi coding kids crowdfund to fly to Legoland for international robotics champs
JOHN COWPLAND/STUFF The New Zealand Blackbots are hoping to compete in an international Lego robotics open at Legoland in California this year.A group of budding robotics...
Microsoft expands its programming language for visually impaired kids
Back in 2017, Microsoft unveiled Project Torino, a unique physical programming language that taught visually impaired kids the basics of coding. It was a huge step forward for...
Roblox is Lets Kids Express Their Creativity and Teaches Them How to Code
Roblox is a fun game that is played by more than 80 million people every month. What’s great about Roblox is that it’s more than a simple game that kids can use in order to...
Kids learn to code via Roblox game platform, Post life, Phnom Penh Post
WITH its Lego-like avatars and easy-to-learn coding for budding programmers, the online gaming app Roblox has cornered the market in younger gamers, with 80 million monthly us...
Robobricks Brings Imaginative and Magical Play to Coding and Robotics
With more and more kids using screen-based devices these days, adults fear that the days of using your imagination is gone. The problem with losing this type of play is that i...
OPINION Why Children Should Learn to Code
Learning to code, regardless of the path a child chooses to take, is crucial today. Research shows us that this knowledge will be important in any career. As both a female lea...
7 Tips To Help You Learn Programming At Home
Whether you are a computer science student or aspiring to self-teach yourself programming, it can be an uphill task sometimes. Mastering programming could be challengi...
Teaching children to code and program with Roblox
Combining education and gaming is nothing new and many of us grew up playing popular titles such as The Oregon Trail, Sim City and Reader Rabbit. However, with advances in bot...
Pepper the robot helps BPS students learn about programming
Pepper, the humanoid robot, isn’t shy. “I’m very happy you are all here today,” the robot said to a crowd at English High School in Boston Monday. Pepper dances, gives high ...
Hour to Code brings developers to practice coding with kids
More from Northern VirginiaMore from Northern VirginiaGrowing up, Shontya Washington watched her father code and fell in love with computers. She recalls sitting at ...
This Cool Robot Can Help Kids Learn to Code
Photo Credit: Root RoboticsIs it a toy? A tiny Roomba? Nope, it’s better (especially if you have kids). The Root (available on Amazon for $179) is an educational ro...
Fourth grade students using robots to learn how to code
Fourth Graders from Mrs. Stacy Watson’s Class (KTVO).jpgMacon, Mo. — Fourth grade students at Macon Elementary School are learning how to code – using robots. But, th...
12 gifts that teach you how to code
If there's one thing that both the Trump and Obama White Houses agree upon, it's the importance of computer science education for children in America. Because of how...
On the move with rolling robots
Carmen Alexa, left, and Lily Dalstra celebrate their success with their OzobotKennen Claus’ favorite part about Ozobot robots is the “party time” programming available for...
Cracking the code
New elementary club focuses on robotics, programmingAlthough students at all four Albert Lea Area Schools elementaries are working with dashes and dots, it’s not Morse c...

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Lil’Bot – arduino based robot
Lil’Bot is a great introductory steps to the world of psysical programming. Lil’Bot is programmed just like an Arduino Uno, and takes standard Arduino shields. About half of t...
Puzzlets
Award-winning ed-tech platform from Digital Dream Labs which combines hands-on play & interactive gaming to teach STEAM principles to K-5 students. Puzzlets is a hardware ...
Code-a-pillar for preschoolers
The Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-a-pillar inspires little learners to be big thinkers by encouraging preschoolers to arrange (and rearrange) the easy-to-connect segment...
Littlebits – for young inventors
littleBits makes a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small. This goes beyond the coding activity, it suppo...
Cato’s Hike – A Programming and Logic Odyssey
Cato’s Hike’ is a game for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch to teach kids and young children basic programming skills. A Programming and Logic Odyssey takes kids on a story-based ad...
CodeCombat teaches coding by playing
The CodeCombat game is a browser-based role-playing game that teaches the programming language Javascript, as well as the fundamentals of computer science. In order to advance...
Jimu robot kits – a Mindstorms alternative
Jimu Robot is an interactive building block robotics kit that empowers children/teenagers to create and program their own robots. Along the way, they engage in powerful hands-...
Codemonkey – teaching real coding
CodeMonkey is an online game that teaches both the fundamentals and advanced topics in computer programming. Use coding skills to program a monkey to grab bananas and ride the...