Coding for Kids
iGeeksBlog
03/06/14
Sometime last year, top CEOs from the tech industry put together a plan to encourage American schools to take up code-learning and teach it earnestly to kids. Learning to code is one of the best experiences ever and this is from personal experience. Learning to code brings about a radical shift in the way we think analytically, logically and abstractly. And all these are huge benefits to rational and intellectual thinking.
Following up on this premise, Tynker came up with a wonderful way to help kids learn the basics of code and programming: by creating games and animations. Tynker is fun, interactive and sharply focused on teaching the fundamentals of logic without making it all boring.
Teaching code is one of the hardest things. And it’s considered somewhat ‘advanced’ for no particular reason which has kept programming fundamentals out of the core syllabus for kids. But there are a lot of benefits of learning to code from an early age. And by code, we don’t mean starting at a Matrix-like dark screen with green lines of gibberish (relative gibberish).
Code/programming is mostly about how you think logically. That’s what code does to a person’s brain. It helps us think better, in a broader sense. Teaching code to kids can be one of the best things for the kids but how do you take out the boring part of the process and replace it with something fun, interactive and equally effective?
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