Teaching Kids Programming
Tomasz (warkocz) Warkocki
Software
- Logo / Imagine
- Scratch
- Blockly
- Code.org
- Kodu
- Minecraft
software & Hardware
- Lego Mind Storms
- Kano
- Sphero / Ollie
- Play-i / Wonder Workshop
PLAN
logo / imagine
description
- Mid 1960s, MIT, Seymour Papert
- LISP inspired
- Turtle graphics
- Comenius, Imagine, Logomocja (in polish)
- Competitions: Logia, miniLogia
- Works on: Windows, MacOS, Linux
- Price: Free, 100 PLN
example
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Scratch
description
- 2003, MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten
- Desktop and online version
- Event driven
- Sprites
- In polish
- Price: Free
example
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Blockly
description
- Web-based, graphical programming editor
- Open Source
- In polish
- Price: Free
example
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code.org
description
- 2013, Hadi and Ali Partovi
- Hour of Code 2013, in two weeks: 20 million people, 600 million lines of code
- Major tech companies and their founders, including Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, have put up about $10 million for Code.org
- Price: Free
example
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Kodu
description
- 2009, Microsoft Research
- Lets kids create games on the PC and Xbox via a simple visual programming language
- Price: Free on PC
example
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minecraft
description
- 2009, Markus "Notch" Persson, Mojang, Microsoft
- Mods in Java
- Eclipse
- Redstone engineering
- Price: 20 EUR
example
example
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Lego Mind Storms
description
- First version in 1998
- Lego Technic based
- RCX, NXT, NXT 2.0, EV3
- Price: 1500 PLN
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kano
description
- 2013, Yonatan Raz-Fridman and Alex Klein
- Kickstarter - $100,000 goal in 18 hours
- Raspberry Pi based
- Wireless keyboard with trackpad
- Wi-Fi dongle and speaker
- Kano OS based on Debian GNU/Linux
- Kano Blocks - an open source visual programming language (Javascript and Python)
- Price: 150 EUR
example
example
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Sphero / Ollie
description
- 2011, prototype by Ian Bernstein and Adam Wilson
- Spherical robot toy designed by Orbotix
- Controlled with a smartphone or tablet running iOS or
- Android via Bluetooth
- Wirelessly charged with a charging base
- Programmable with Sphero Macrolab app and orbBasic which uses a BASIC-based language
- Price: Ollie: 100 USD, Sphero: 130 USD
example
example
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Play-i / Wonder Workshop
description
- 2012 - prototype, Vikas Gupta, Saurabh Gupta, Mikal Greaves
- Visual programming
- From 5 years old
- iOS / Android apps
- Price: 230 USD
example
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thank you!
Have fun!
Teaching Kids Programming
By Tomasz Warkocki
