0What is coding?
Coding has become a must-have skill in this 21st century. Coding, or computer programming, is how we communicate with Devices. Code mentions the machine what moves to make, and composing code resembles making a bunch of directions. By figuring out how to write code, you can instruct devices on acting in many desired ways. You can utilize this ability to make sites and applications, process and store data, and do many other cool things.
Scratch is a block-based, drag and drops programming language that permits students to make interactive stories, games, and animations. When they start building
Scratch was created by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT Media Lab and is out there for free of charge download. After downloading, you can use the scratch program on your local machine. Or you may use a scratch language interface online itself. Scratch 3.0 is the latest version; your kids and teens can start their learning process in version 3.0 directly.
Why coding for kids from scratch?
Since scratch is not a text-based programming language and is a visual tool, kids and teens can quickly learn the coding and programming concepts. Scratch is a beginner-friendly language, So your kids and teens must start their code learning as early as possible with scratch. The coding and programming concept learning from scratch will not be raw or flatten. Your kids and teens can learn the coding concepts by playing the game or by building games. This feature makes them very interesting. One of my students from London is just five years old kid.
What is the scratch coding purpose?
In the scratch programming environment, your kids and teens need to type the code. They need just to drag and drop. In this simple way, they can give instructions to the computer and gets the desired outputs quickly. So they learn to code and also master creativity.
By giving instructions to the computers, gadgets, they learn the reason systematically. So by playing the games or creating the games, they directly or indirectly learn the coding and programming concepts successfully—so this is the real purpose of scratch code learning.
What are the benefits of using scratch for coding?
The other benefits of scratch code learning are
1) It helps your children to learn the process of the implementation of ideas practically. From brain to screen
2) It makes your wards to learn the 21st-century skills to win in the rat race of the life
3) It helps to collaborate with ideas, machines and also with peer group members.
4) It builds logical and analytical skills in the life of your children
5) Scratch makes the learning process fun and easy. It positively impacts the learning of mathematics and science subjects. Learn coding boost the maths and science marks.
What age is scratch for?
According to the founder of scratch, the age of 8 to 16 is recommended. But based on my teaching experiences with more than 1000 kids and teens, my suggestion is 5 to 19 years is ok to learn the scratch. It would help if you introduced coding to the children at an early stage. Kids first computer language should be scratch and followed by python.
