If your child spends hours and hours in front of a computer, you can also get him interested in something other than games. For example, for programming. Find out why and how.

WHY?

If you are a person whose kids are spending all day in front of the computer screen, playing games or chatting on social networks, you will not achieve anything by prohibiting or deterring him from the technology. Since children learn the best from experience and through the game (the method of Maria Montessori), you may be able to try to get them interested in programming from the earliest age.

Those who advocate coding for children find that "every child in the 21st century should be given the chance to learn something about algorithms, how applications are made, or how the Internet works. Just like learning about photosynthesis, digestion system or electrical current. "

Just like learning native and foreign languages, so from the earliest age to pay attention to programming languages.

Of course, they should also bear in mind that these are only beginner sources adapted to a certain age by which the children will develop logic and learn how to connect things that will later be useful to them.

SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE:

CODE.ORG

Code.org is a non-profit organization whose goal is to change educational paradigms and bring computers (children and teachers) to schools around the world. In December 2013, on their official website, the Hour of Code was organized in which many well-known figures, such as Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and many others.

This website offers tutorials for beginners, tutorials for JavaScript, phones, tablets and other programming languages, as well as a handful of sources for teachers. And not only that, but there is a gallery of children's works that contains children's stories and games that they made after attending courses!

HELLO RUBY

If you are a developer yourself and you love the Ruby platform, here is good news for you! The founders of the Rails Girls course aim to make the programming fun for children, and they have compiled a fun pack designed for kids. With the help of the Hello Ruby website, children develop their imagination, and most importantly - they learn through the game.

SCRATCH

Scratch is the site for learning the most important skills for the 21st century - programming, animations, games - all through creative and interactive courses for children of elementary school age. What makes this platform interesting is that it has content for the youngest, but also for not so young people (but the young ones in the heart) wanting new knowledge. She and her parents and teachers can find useful sources and lesson plans.

GRAPHITE COMMON SENSE

The Graphite platform is another in a series of free websites that can help educate children. It contains various tutorials that will help children to develop applications, games, and websites. If you are particularly interested in applications that help with programming and coding, you can view this list of them, which includes Scratch, ScratchJr, Kodable Class, and so on.

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