by Sacramento4Kids | May 21, 2019 | Education
How Coding Develops Kids Creativity
The benefits of coding have been made quite visible and these benefits are rapidly increasing as more people are beginning to experiment through coding, but how can coding develops kids creativity? Can it unlock your child’s creativity? What good will coding be to the creativity of a child aged 7 to 13?
Most parents think a child’s creativity is in his/her ability to draw, paint, or create amazing things with LEGO blocks. The truth is that creativity goes beyond that. Learning how to code can develop a child’s creativity in a lot of ways because coding is not about the maths or the strings & variables, coding is all about creativity.
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by Sacramento4Kids | May 15, 2018 | Camps, Education
“What is Coding”
by: Mr. Code of Mr. Code’s Wild Ride
Everybody seems to be talking about computer coding, why it’s important, and how it’s the way of the future. But what exactly is coding? I’ll explain by starting with a personal story.
When I was in elementary school, I enjoyed making up imaginary worlds filled with characters and items. I would draw maps of these worlds and write down all of the characters and items. I would then have my dad explore these worlds, and how this worked was my dad would tell me what he wanted to do in a particular world, and I would respond with what happened as a result. Essentially, my dad was a user giving me commands, and I was a computer processing those commands. (more…)
