By Teri Llach September 22, 2022
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A computer programming education is quickly becoming a necessity for today’s students. In particular, learning to code improves a child’s: – Critical Thinking Skills – Executive Functioning Abilities – Overall Academic Performance
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As children learn to code, they develop hard skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving while increasing their capacity to communicate and manage their time (executive functioning).
In recent years, computer programming or coding has become an integral part of our daily lives. Coding is the method of giving a computer instructions to perform a specific task, whether it’s running a refrigerator or water heater or the sophisticated programs necessary for self-driving cars.
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Critical Thinking Coding trains your brain to approach problems and their solutions differently by building the capacity to monitor, evaluate, and control thinking while completing new tasks.
Problem-Solving Coding requires a trial and error approach that improves your ability to solve problems. If a particular piece of code isn’t working, you’ll develop methods to think through the individual issues and steps in finding a solution.
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Creativity Creativity just needs to be channeled and released. Steps in the creative process include observation, asking questions, drawing connections, experimenting, and getting different perspectives. Each of these elements empowers the imagination to create original coded projects
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Mathematics Computer programmers pick up math skills while learning to code. For example, when students program a video game they use the variables, expressions, angles, and numbers key to arithmetic and geometry.
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Teamwork There are a lot of opportunities to build projects together in coding communities, where programmers learn to manage their time and team with discussion, compromise, and negotiation.
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