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Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior iPad game teaches kids to code… with robots!
Steering your children down a specific career path is, for most parents, a hiding to nothing. Better to let them discover what they want to be for themselves, and provide the necessary support. And...
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Hopscotch HD iPad app teaches kids to code
There are a growing number of apps that want to teach children computer programming skills, from last year’s Move The Turtle to the recent Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior. Now meet the latest: Hopscotch...
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Five iPad apps trying to teach programming skills to kids
When I was young, I had a Commodore 64 computer. Some friends did too, while others had ZX Spectrums or Amstrad CPCs. Arguments over which was best could be heated, but what all these home computers...
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Hakitzu coding-for-kids game gets Elite: Robot Hackers update
Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior was one of the most exciting apps for kids to have been released this year. Why? First, because it’s teaching kids to program. Second, because it’s doing that with GIANT...
View ArticleLight-bot is the latest app teaching kids to code
There's a growing number of apps that teach children how to program, with Light-bot the latest hoping to get kids interested in coding. Available for iOS and Android, it describes itself as a...
View ArticleCan robots teach your kids to code? Play-i hopes so
We've written before about the growing number of apps helping to teach children computer programming skills. But now robots are joining the fun. Meet Bo and Yana, two cutesy round robots that have been...
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Coding-for-kids app Hakitzu Elite launches on Android
When it came out for iPad in March, the Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior app knocked our socks off with its ambition: teaching kids computer programming skills with giant virtual robots. Developer Kuato...
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Craft Computer Club will help kids learn to code with craft
Kids learning to code is one of the big themes of 2014 around the world, but particularly so here in the UK, where even primary-school children will be learning computer programming skills as part of...
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Tynker is the latest iPad app teaching kids to code
More than 5m children and 8,000 schools have used the Tynker website to learn computer programming skills. Now it has an iPad app available too. Launched today on Apple's App Store, it adopts a similar...
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Coding for kids iPad app Tynker gets a premium version
Earlier this year we wrote about Tynker, an iPad app teaching children their first programming skills. It was a free download with some lessons included, then parents could pay for extra modules. Now...
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Can Shaun the Sheep help your kids learn to code?
There's a lot of excitement around kids and coding at the moment. Now Shaun the Sheep is joining the programming party with a new game-making contest for children. Shaun's Game Academy was launched...
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ScratchJr is the latest iPad app teaching kids to code
There's a lot of excitement here in the UK (and elsewhere in the world, for that matter) about children learning to code, with numerous apps already available to teach them first programming skills....
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BBC reveals some of its plans to get kids into coding
There's a lot of excitement around children and computer programming – coding – here in the UK at the moment. This week is back-to-school week, and from this term, coding is on the national curriculum...
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Kids can get coding with Scratch-based Pyonkee iPad app
Have you heard of Scratch? It's one of the most popular ways for children to learn computer programming skills, by creating and animating scenes with characters, using blocks of visual code. Originally...
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CodeQuest app teaches kids to code through games and stories
Here in the UK there's currently a big trend around children and coding – computer programming – with the subject included on the national curriculum now for kids as young as five years old. Part of...
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Can Doctor Who teach your kids to code… with a Dalek?
Doctor Who can still be one of the scariest shows on TV, but it has a big audience of children nonetheless – some of whom are less likely to be hiding behind the sofa than their parents! Now the BBC...
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The Foos leap in to the kids coding apps space
Here in England, coding – computer programming – is now on the national curriculum for children as young as five, which is quite exciting for parents (if a bit worrying, if you're a teacher who's as...
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The best coding apps for kids on iPhone, iPad and Android
All over the world, children are taking their first steps in computer programming at an early age. Some, like those here in England, are doing it at school. Others are doing it at home through a...
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Programming for kids in Robot School: Learn to Code app
One of the first apps trying to get children interested in programming that we ever wrote about was Move the Turtle, back in 2012. It's still being used by children at home and in schools today. Now...
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Doctor Who coding-for-kids game comes to iPad and Android
Last October, we wrote about a new web game launched by the BBC called Doctor Who: The Doctor and the Dalek, which was aiming to get kids interested in computer programming. Now the Beeb has launched a...
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