BatmansWife Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Maybe we are late to the ball game, because my daughter is 14, but she just coded a google and loved it. :001_smile: Now she wants to do more coding. I just signed her up at the free site coding.org, but I'm wondering about Tynker. Is it worth it, being that it's not free? It is on sale right now and I may be willing to get the year subscription, if it's really worth it. Or maybe it's for younger kids, I'm not sure. I guess I don't know too much about what's out there and maybe there's enough available for free. Any help would be great. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrustAndLove Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 You can find free ones at hourofcoding.com. I am too cheap to pay for Tynker. There is also a free google Playground app that you can try out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Maybe try asking on the high school board, or Gen Ed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal_Bear Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 You could have her do Scratch. Your library should have plenty of books on learning to code in Scratch. Or if you are talking about moving more into a coding using a programming language. Then you should be able to code with Python. Again, the library will have plenty of books on this. You can look around on Amaon If your library has this one, it's written for more a middle school and up crowd which I think would be better than the other Scratch books that are out there. https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Scratch-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593275439/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1512705739&sr=8-6&keywords=scratch+programming Scratch is free. https://scratch.mit.edu/ She can explore other people's work on there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insertcreativenamehere Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 My 12 yo is taking a coding and robotics class at the local school and they use Scratch. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted December 11, 2017 Author Share Posted December 11, 2017 Thanks everyone! Maybe try asking on the high school board, or Gen Ed? Hey...don't push me over to the high school board just yet! I've got the rest of this school year before I gotta go over there. It's going to be a rough transition when the time comes. :crying: :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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