Information for learning program for children
After Obama's push on hour of code, there are a lot of resources to teach kid to program on the web. One of a new approach to teach programming is to use block programming. By using drag and drop, we can maintain the education of structure programming, while eliminate the hassle of syntax error, uncompleted parentheses, etc.
I think Alfred Thompson's blog has a good overview of various platform for learning program for children. I have also tried some below:
I think Alfred Thompson's blog has a good overview of various platform for learning program for children. I have also tried some below:
- MIT App Inventor 2
- Write Android Apps using block programming
- No software needed to be installed. Just program on web page and do trial on Android device.
- Microsoft Kodu
- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/
- new version supports Windows 8!
- MIT Star
- Build a paint ball game (with MIT Star Logo)
- MIT Scratch
- Tutor from Taiwan
- Scratch Jr (for iPad)
- CMU Alice
- Greenfoot (Kent University)
- http://www.greenfoot.org/door
- Raspberry Pi
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