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Why Your Kids Should Play These Top 10 Educational Coding Games

Why Your Kids Should Play These Top 10 Educational Coding Games

Top 10 Educational Coding Games

Undeniably, coding is going to be one of the most rewarding future careers and more relevant than it is today. But still, many parents think that coding is all about lots of texts and complex symbols and hence, kids shouldn’t be exposed to it. However, the truth is coding is not difficult when taught right, and letting your child obtain this skill at an early age offers a plethora of benefits. In this post, we are going to discuss the top benefits of introducing your kids to coding and the best educational coding games that would help them obtain this skill playfully.

 

The Core Benefits of Coding For Kids

Here’re the core benefits that coding would bring your kids’ way.

 

Logical thinking: Kids need to think logically when coding. They’ll learn how to develop step-by-step procedures to achieve the desired outcomes by creating various logical statements and sentences such as conditional statements, selections, expressions, etc.

 

Computational thinking: During the process of learning to code, kids get familiarized with how to communicate with a computer using symbols, signs, and texts. It helps them nurture a methodical way to deal with a computer by recognizing various abstracts and patterns.

 

Mathematical skills: Kids get introduced to basic mathematical skills in school but when they start learning to code, they view and apply them on a more advanced level. This practical approach helps them get an edge over others by enhancing their skills.

 

Confidence: It takes time and sincere effort to make code work. To obtain a working code, kids need to go into trial and error processes. This helps to develop patience, perseverance, and eventually confidence.

 

Problem-Solving Skills: When their code does not work, kids need to find what the problem is and solve that problem by trying and understand what changes need to be made to fix the wrong lines of code.

 

Creativity: When coding, kids need to apply different ways to solve a problem. They learn how to create various formulas and programs to get the desired result. In short, they step into the world of creativity with coding.

 

Hopefully, the above benefits have made you understand why it’s imperative for your kids to learn to code. Let’s take a look at some of the best coding games that you can use as starting points of your kids’ coding journey.

 

Top 10 Educational Coding Games

1. CodeMonkey

By playing this extremely simple award-winning coding game, kids learn coding effortlessly. Here, kids learn how to creatively use basic programming skills and real programming languages to help the monkey accomplish their goals. Here, the journey starts with CoffeeScript (a text-based version of JavaScript) and ends with Python – two extremely popular languages used by professionals across the globe.

 

2. CodeCombat

One of the best things about CodeCombat is that kids obtain the knowledge of coding while playing a game. They need to use lines of code to help the character move past the challenges. Another notable thing is that it lets the users choose coding languages from Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and Lua based on what they intend to learn.

 

3. Codemoji

Ideal for elementary school students, Codemoji helps kids learn fundamental programming skills with the help of emojis. Using this mode of communication, kids create and learn JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in a casual setting instead of typing or incorporating syntax. This method of simplification helps them comprehend abstract concepts more easily.

 

4. LightBot

One of the notable things about LightBot is here, kids get to learn coding without actually realizing the learning process. It doesn’t introduce kids to any actual coding language. Instead, it helps them learn different programming concepts such as procedures, sequencing, overloading, conditionals, recursive loops, among others. With no clues or hints offered, players get as many chances as they require to win the challenges.

 

5. Blockly Games

If your kid is yet to step into the world of computer programming, Blockly Games would fit the bill just right. It helps kids learn everything about coding – from the basics to its more complex aspects. Similar to LightBot, this game is also designed to introduce kids to the fundamental concepts of coding rather than focusing on any real programming language.

 

6. Machineers

This game aims to teach kids programming skills in a fun and entertaining manner. Here, kids need to use coding principles along with drag-and-drop functionality for fixing broken machines. Machineers also does not use any actual code or math. Instead, it helps kids develop procedural literacy, creativity, and logical thinking.

 

7. RoboZZle

This puzzle game takes the kids through all the fundamental programming concepts where a player can improve his/her chances of comprehending the next concept after completing the earlier concept successfully. RoboZZle lets them build a robot using programming steps where they get to learn both basic and complex concepts of coding.

 

8. Kodable

With more than 70 lessons combining off-screen and on-screen elements and activities, Kodable is designed to transform complex topics into easily comprehensible concepts that can be learned and applied by kids. The lessons are fully equipped with all the materials that help kids learn skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking among others.

 

9. Code Karts

This simple app helps kids get introduced to coding topics by letting them navigate 70 levels of challenges on a racetrack. Here, kids organize colored “bricks” to set the directions of a race car to help it navigate around the track. This process helps them learn cause-and-effect relationships, step-by-step patterns, how an input affects the output, etc.

 

10. Scratch

In this game, kids need to design various games, stories, and animations to test their coding skills. While creating animations, kids can determine the appropriate user controls, sound effects, etc. With lots of guides and tutorials available on the platform, kids of all ages can find it enjoyable.

 

In today’s competitive world, kids should be introduced to coding as early as possible. It not only promotes their overall development but prepares them for the future as well by strengthening essential skills. With the help of the above-mentioned coding games, they would be able to understand what is going on under the ambit of the world of coding, which is extremely essential to lay the foundation for a successful future career.

 

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JOHN H. FALK

Director of the Institute for Learning Innovation and Sea Grant Professor Emeritus of Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University

 

Dr. John H. Falk is Director of the Institute for Learning Innovation and Sea Grant Professor Emeritus of Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University. He is a leading expert on free-choice learning; the learning that occurs when people have significant choice and control over what, where, and when they learn.

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CHRISTINE CUNNINGHAM

Professor of Practice of Education and Engineering at Penn State University

 

Dr. Christine Cunningham is a Professor of Practice of Education and Engineering at Penn State University. Her work focuses on making engineering more relevant, accessible, and inclusive, especially for underserved and underrepresented populations. She does this by creating researched-based engineering curricula for PreK-8 children and their educators. Her book, Engineering in Elementary STEM Education, describes her groundbreaking work. Previously, Cunningham was the Founding Director of Engineering is Elementary. Cunningham has received a number of awards; in 2017 her work was recognized with the prestigious Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education.

 

CHRIS ROGERS

Chris Rogers Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University

 

His research interests are:

Engineering Education, Robotics, and Musical Instrument Design

 

Education

Ph., D Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

 

Biography

Chris Rogers earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, where he worked with Professor John Eaton on his thesis on particle motion in a boundary layer flow. Rogers joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts School of Engineering in 1989. He is involved in a number of research areas, including particle-laden flows (a continuation of his thesis), telerobotics and controls, the slurry flows in chemical-mechanical planarization, the engineering of musical instruments, measuring flame shapes of couch fires, measuring fruit-fly locomotion, and engineering education (kindergarten to college). At Tufts, Rogers has exercised his strong commitment to teaching by exploring a number of new directions, including teaching robotics with LEGO bricks and teaching manufacturing by building musical instruments. His teaching work extends to the elementary school level, where he talks with over 1,000 teachers around the world every year on methods of introducing young children to engineering.

 

RumeysaDogan

RUMEYSA DOGAN

Co-founder and COO at TechDev Academy

  • Graduated from top-ranked business school with high honor
  • Worked in top global companies as Vodafone, Benetton Group, etc
  • Experienced in Product Management and Digital Marketing Analytics
  • Managed Entrepreneurship Club and mentored several entrepreneurs

 

 

ismail-marulcu

ISMAIL MARULCU

Co-founder & Chief Education Officer at TechDev Academy

  • Educator and Researcher since 2001
  • M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College
  • Ph.D. in STEM Education from Boston College
  • Mentored more than 100 pre-service teachers, college students, and high school students

 

 

PaolaGomez

PAOLA G. GONZALES

Mentor & Educator

  • over 2,000 hours mentoring students and 4 years of teaching experience
  • spearheaded a nonprofit organization that provides mentorship to underrepresented students at the UC, Davis
  • an active member of the Surfrider Foundation

 

 

AyushKanodia

AYUSH KANODIA

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at Stanford

  • Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at Stanford Uni.
  • Worked as a software engineer for Google
  • Expert in the intersection of Computer Science and Economics.

 

 

KairatSabyrov

KAIRAT SABYROV

Ph.D., Data Scientist

  • B.S. in chemistry and physics
  • Ph.D. In physical chemistry
  • Data science instructor at Lambda School
  • Worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab at the UC, Berkeley

 

 

BAHRUDIN TRBALIC

Ph.D., Candidate at Stanford University

  • Studied Physics & Electrical Engineering at MIT.
  • Worked at MIT as a Medical Data Analyst and Product Developer.
  • The founder and lead developer of Expert Experiments.
  • Received the 2023 Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowship and 2022 NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis Award.
  • Spearheaded STEM camps across Europe and Asia.
  • He has been mentoring students for years.

 

 

SHASHA ANRONIKOV

Researcher at Stanford University

  • Recent honors graduate from Cornell University with a major in biological sciences and a minor in business at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
  • Currently working at Stanford University in the Nolan Lab to conduct immunopathology research.

 

 

LISA WANG

BSc Harvard University Graduate

  • Studied Environmental Science and Engineering.
  • Cross-registered to Harvard Univ. and MIT.
  • An advisor to the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group.
  • Co-founder of Coolant, a company that builds software to unlock nature-based carbon markets.

 

 

SEMI HASAJ

MBA Data Scientist at C3 AI

  • Studied Data Science while obtaining his Master's of Business Analytics at MIT.
  • Studied Space Engineering in Toronto, Canada where he grew up.
  • He has spent years tutoring others because he loves to help people learn and grow.

 

 

SAMY AWWAD

Junior at Stanford University

  • Studying Symbolic Systems with a focus on Neurosciences and plans to be a medical doctor.
  • Founded ImmuniGlobal, a national nonprofit in vaccine education, and he was featured in Healthline magazine.
  • A published researcher in PubMed.
  • Honored by the CDC as a Flu Fighter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Enthusiastic about empowering young changemakers.

 

 

HASAN TUNCER

Ph.D., Product Manager at Cruise

  • BSc. in Computer Science at Koc University, Istanbul.
  • Ph.D. in Computing and Information Scienves at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
  • Worked as a software engineering at Wall Street.
  • Product Manager for Cloud Services (at IBM Silicon Valley Lab), autonomous vehicles (at NIO, aka Chinese Tesla, Uber ATG, Aurora and Cruise)

 

 

RayYucel

RAY YUCEL

Ph.D., Data Scientist in Magnimind Inc.

  • B.S in Materials Engineering
  • M.Sc in Management
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
  • Data scientist at Magnimind Inc.
  • Employs deep learning in finance and health care data

 

 

SofoklisGoulas

SOFOKLIS GOULAS

Ph.D., Senior Research Associate at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University

  • Senior research associate, Stanford Uni.
  • The use of data science and machine learning in economics
  • M.Sc. in finance and economics, Warwick business school
  • MS and a Ph.D. in economics, the Uni. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Worked at the Uni. of North Carolina and at the Bank of Greece

 

 

EnricoSantus

ENRICO SANTUS

Senior Data Scientist at Bayer

  • Senior data scientist at Bayer
  • Postdoc at MIT, in the group of Regina Barzilay
  • Experience in NLP in Oncology, Cardiology and Palliative Care
  • Experience in Fake News Detection, Sentiment Analysis, and Lexical Semantics.
  • Invited to talk at the White House

 

 

EMILY HALFORD

Data Analyst

  • Data analyst working in psychiatric epidemiology
  • Data Science&Mental Health Expert with the BBN Times
  • Master of Public Health, Columbia Uni.

 

 

RyanSpitler

RYAN SPITLER

Ph.D., Co-Founder and Deputy Director of the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center (PHIND) at Stanford University

  • Faculty Member, Standford Uni.
  • Founding Partner at Boutique Venture Partners
  • B.S. in Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, UC, Santa Cruz
  • Ph.D. In Cellular and Developmental Biology, UC, Irvine

 

 

muratbaday

MURAT BADAY

Scientist at Stanford Uni, Founder & CEO at TechDev Academy

  • Co-founder of Smartlens, Magnimind, Wowso, Nanosight
  • M.S. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh
  • Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Biophysics from the Uni. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Mentored and tutored over 100 high school students
  • Developed novel ideas and has over 8 patents

 

 

GyunelRashidova

GYUNEL RASHIDOVA

B.S. in Biological Sciences,
Research assistant at the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioinstrumentation

  • iGEM alumni, received Gold Medal among 250 teams
  • Fellowship holder from Women in Tech international organization
  • Founder of social projects:
    “OncoSense” - fabrication of device for the detection of cancer biomarkers;
    “RemiSee” - promotion of a colorblind-friendly educational platform
  • AIESEC alumni, organized case competitions with over 300 participants
  • Organized iGEM Biohackathon and Summer Camp for high-school and university students to apply coding for solving real case studies

 

 

SoudehYaghouti

SOUDEH YAGHOUTI

Ph.D., Data Scientist at Megalab, Silicon Valley

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
  • More than 4 years of experience in data-driven research on electrical network systems.
  • Collaborating with TechDev Academy for several years and taught students data analysis projects.
  • Collaborated with Stanford scientists on projects that aimed to automate medical diagnosis of diseases with the help of image processing techniques and AI.

 

 

AIZHAN IBRAYEVA

MSc Researcher at Stanford University

  • MS. Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University.
  • Did research at Stanford University, Aerospace Science Lab (Purdue), Rarefied Gas Dynamics Lab (Purdue)
  • Worked on projects supported by NASA.
  • Worked as Engineer at Silicon Valley Startup companies.
  • Mentored Students from top US school

 

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