Re:Ask HN: Do you try teaching your kids to code?
by tmaly on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:27PM
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I have taught my kids ages 5 and 10 some coding in ScratchJr/Scratch/MakeCode.
I also volunteered at the school to teach kids how to build their own robot from lego, servos, and microbits.
What I have found is that most younger kids are not as drawn to coding.
It is the hands on projects that keeps them interested.
For ScratchJr I did put out a 30 minute project based course on Udemy. It has a few students here and there. But what really works is when I sit down with a class and show them live how to build a project on Scratch Jr.
I also volunteered at the school to teach kids how to build their own robot from lego, servos, and microbits.
What I have found is that most younger kids are not as drawn to coding.
It is the hands on projects that keeps them interested.
For ScratchJr I did put out a 30 minute project based course on Udemy. It has a few students here and there. But what really works is when I sit down with a class and show them live how to build a project on Scratch Jr.