Friday 11 September 2015

How to teach programming logic with an app bundle

In recent times, there has been a large interest in helping children across the world develop skills related to programming. While some countries refer to it slightly differently, the concept and content remains very similar.

Computing has made its way into national curriculums, brought about lots of initiatives across the world and has also had a lot of attention in the media – it is now seen as a vital skill for young people to be learning.

While there are many great apps across different technologies for introducing students to actually writing code themselves, the question is, what is the best way to learn the ‘computational thinking’ and 'programming logic' side of coding?

For this very reason, we created some unique apps to help deliver this. They have been out for a while as individual apps but we have now made them into bundles; so you get three for the price of two.

There is one for age 8-11 year olds and one for age 11-14 year olds:

8-11 year olds: www.bit.ly/DMcomputing1

Teaching programming logic with iPad apps - 8 to 11 year olds

11-14 year olds: www.bit.ly/DMcomputing2

Teaching programming logic with iPad apps - 11 to 14 year olds

Let us know how you've approached this topic in your class with a comment, we're really interested in hearing your ideas.