The first time I heard the word kids programming was back in my college days – where all the syntax structure and logic was thrown at me, all at once. It was hard. There were days when the logic would work and the computer would throw syntax errors at me. And then, there were other days where I cracked the syntax but it would take me ages to crack the logic to solve a problem.
Kids Programming Today: But the present generation kids is blessed with some amazing coding tools which uses the concept of building blocks. These tools help the students to focus more on the logic and less on syntax making it easy for beginners. It makes complex programming easy to understand and code. It lets the students to get the taste of programming, both to expand their understanding of the world around them and to motivate them to learn text-based languages later. It helps them to pick up the programming languages quickly, since they are already familiar with the basic concepts.
Learning a programming vocabulary is hard. Blocks simplify this problem – as picking a block from a palette is easier compared to remembering a word. Code is hard to use as it presents a high cognitive load for new programmers.
AFTER A COUPLE OF DAYS:
Student: Ma’am I had a look at the javascript language on google and I could understand it. But it looked boring so let’s continue with block coding for now and later, I will learn javascript.
It clearly shows that the way the block programming tools have been designed, it keeps the young kids more interested in programming.
By WhiteHatJr Reviews
The first time I heard the word kids programming was back in my college days – where all the syntax structure and logic was thrown at me, all at once. It was hard. There were days when the logic would work and the computer would throw syntax errors at me.
