MakeCode and the BBC micro:bit

Programming is in my DNA, so when I had children it was obvious that I would attempt to share my passion. It has taken a while, for some reason for loops don’t interest toddlers! However my 7 year old son has got a taste for it now. It was his birthday the other day and he got quite a few tech related things. First off...

Scratch

My 6 year old boy has been playing with Scratch, so here is a quick introduction to what we have learnt about it. Scratch is a website that allows you to “code” by combining blocks together. This is how the scratch website describes its self Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding...