Kids and Code: Conditions and loops
Last week I published the first post of Kids and Code where I started recording the process of teaching my six-year-old son to code. We used code.org which is just awesome, specifically the Minecraft game which has just the right balance of difficulty, engagement and entertainment. It’s mostly dragging and dropping blocks which represent procedures, but it’s a great way of getting kids to think about the structure that goes into code. Even at six years old, Ari picked it up very quickly and is genuinely enjoying it, so we recorded another one with some more advanced concepts. Here’s another short clip where he starts using two fundamental coding constructs. Firstly, there are...