As a parent, What’s in it for me?

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Problem Solving
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Creative thinking
Scratch

App Inventor

Code.org


Do you love ipad more than a computer/laptop? Probably you do and so do your little ones too. With Swift Playgrounds, apple has opened a whole new opportunities for parents and kids to learn the programming with the ease of using just the ipad in a very nice gamified way. You can solve many puzzles on Switft Playgrounds by writing simple coding, again no previous knowledge is required to use Swift Playgrounds. The best thing with Switft Playgrounds is how its described on apple website “What you see is what you code: Create code on the left side of your screen and instantly see the results on the right — with just a tap” and its really as simple as its written
Learn more about Switft Playgrounds here or simple download it using your iStore
What all is needed to learn Swift Playgrounds: an iPad, period.
Who can learn App Inventor : Anyone who can use iPad and off course read English 🙂
Can I teach App Inventor to my kids: Yes, if you can use iPad, and read English 🙂 🙂
Code Club
Code club is a non-profit from UK which aims in creating code clubs in schools and communities worldwide to spread the computer programming education among the kids. Its a very nice initiative which is connecting thousands of volunteers across the globe who are arranging code clubs in their schools or community and teach younger ones about coding. If you’re an interested parent, you can also start code club in your community / society.
The reason for including code club here, is that they’ve created very nice short lesson based projectes to teach
- Scratch
- Python Programming
- HTML and CSS
- Hardware like Raspberry Pi and related tools
So if you’ve chosen to start with scratch, you’ll find interesting projects for getting started with scratch here on code club website. These tutorials can act as guide to you as parent as well as to your kids for learning the coding
Verdict
To be honest, there are many different platforms where you can teach programming to your kids and are also free, but I’ve mentioned the ones here which have created the most impact, and tools which are be all and end all type. offcourse there are plenty of things to be explored further, but any one of these tools is great way to get started and will definitely keep you and your kids hooked for months and always wanting for more things to do. But if you really want to develop the growing brain of your child the biggest thing that is going to help your child is YOU. Yes, its eventually up to you. By simply enrolling your kids to the classes who are teaching coding won’t help, your kids will get the most of fun and knowledge both if they’re doing it with you, I don’t know if you’re a father / mother / guardian and I don’t know what is your profession. But you have to give time to your kids. Just spend one weekend with them doing little coding and see how happy they’ll be. Let me know if it helped you at all.
All the kids, regardless of their age and schooling wants to spend more time with their parents, so the most important part is, how much are you willing to give your time to younger ones? Believe me, give them your time now, because they’re going to grow up too soon 🙂