DEV Community

Cover image for Help a kid start coding: 13 free resources
Brian Pfeil
Brian Pfeil

Posted on Originally published at brianpfeil.com

Help a kid start coding: 13 free resources

Block coding, games and first apps for young learners.

I keep a directory of free ways to learn at brianpfeil.com/learn, sorted by goal, and every link opens without signing in. This is one of its paths: 13 resources, with the ones I'd start with marked ⭐.

  • Scratch, by MIT ⭐: MIT's drag-and-drop coding for kids, with millions of shared projects.
  • Code.org: Hour of Code and full courses for every grade.
  • Khan Academy Kids: A free learning app for ages 2 to 8.
  • Lightbot: A puzzle game that teaches programming logic without typing any code.
  • App Inventor, by MIT: Build real phone apps with blocks.
  • Swift Playgrounds, by Apple: Apple's app for learning to code in Swift on an iPad or Mac.
  • Roblox Creator Hub, by Roblox: Learn to make Roblox games in Lua, straight from Roblox.
  • Minecraft Education: Coding and STEM lessons inside Minecraft.
  • CoderDojo: Free, volunteer-led coding clubs for young people around the world.

Made here

  • Mathmon Battle League: A creature-collecting card battler where every attack is a maths problem.
  • Animal Fun: iPhone and iPad app to help kids learn about animals.
  • Alpha Sound: A simple ABC's learning program for children.
  • Vehicle Fun for Kids: Interactive vehicle app with real pictures and sounds for young children.

The up-to-date list, and the other paths (code, cloud, AI, kids and more), is at brianpfeil.com/learn/kids/.

Top comments (0)