Thank you Aparna. I love your videos. I am partially homeschooling my 7 year old boy and 10 year old girl in Seattle. I am not an IT professional. I am terribly confused about the various fields and classes offered for kids …programming, coding, Java, python, robotics, AI, etc. I don’t know which one to start with. And how they are connected to each other. Will be great if you can make a video about various IT related options/classes available for kids. I don’t know which class to start. My kids are generally interested. Also, how do you teach the kids the basics of hardware and software like what is a cpu, what is an operating system, what is World Wide Web, what are cookies (that cookies thing comes up every time my kids go on a website), how internet and wife works, etc. I just feel like nobody talks about these important basic concepts before talking about higher level programming things. Also what do you think of Blockly? It is screen based so I don’t like it but it is so popular so I bought it. Do you think it is effective?
Hi, if you cannot teach programming concepts without screens, it's totally okay to use tools like Scratch or Blockly. I won't worry too much about which language or concepts to start with at their current ages. However, for answering questions like how a CPU works or what the World Wide Web is, you can always bring age-appropriate library books with simple language and read to your kids. If you can't find any good books, let me know. It might be a good idea for me to come up with one :) When they are 13-14+, they can learn how to code with a scripting language like Python or Javascript. If they excel quickly, the best thing to do is encourage them to start building web and mobile applications. I have made a video in detail about how to teach kids to code- th-cam.com/video/AKa1k1sHhSw/w-d-xo.html The video and its description box mention many good ideas and resources. Hope this helps.
Such an insightful video. Thanks aparna
Hi..I am a vet Dr mom from Pakistan.. I'm doing homeschooling and your ideas really help me a lot ..keep sharing stuff...lots of prays for you
How are you able to work and homeschooling?
Thank you Aparna. I love your videos. I am partially homeschooling my 7 year old boy and 10 year old girl in Seattle. I am not an IT professional. I am terribly confused about the various fields and classes offered for kids …programming, coding, Java, python, robotics, AI, etc. I don’t know which one to start with. And how they are connected to each other. Will be great if you can make a video about various IT related options/classes available for kids. I don’t know which class to start. My kids are generally interested. Also, how do you teach the kids the basics of hardware and software like what is a cpu, what is an operating system, what is World Wide Web, what are cookies (that cookies thing comes up every time my kids go on a website), how internet and wife works, etc. I just feel like nobody talks about these important basic concepts before talking about higher level programming things. Also what do you think of Blockly? It is screen based so I don’t like it but it is so popular so I bought it. Do you think it is effective?
Hi, if you cannot teach programming concepts without screens, it's totally okay to use tools like Scratch or Blockly. I won't worry too much about which language or concepts to start with at their current ages. However, for answering questions like how a CPU works or what the World Wide Web is, you can always bring age-appropriate library books with simple language and read to your kids.
If you can't find any good books, let me know. It might be a good idea for me to come up with one :)
When they are 13-14+, they can learn how to code with a scripting language like Python or Javascript. If they excel quickly, the best thing to do is encourage them to start building web and mobile applications.
I have made a video in detail about how to teach kids to code- th-cam.com/video/AKa1k1sHhSw/w-d-xo.html
The video and its description box mention many good ideas and resources.
Hope this helps.
Nice video
same here. thanks from the philippines
You're welcome!
why the thing with the glasses at minute 13
Please elaborate