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August 6, 2021

5 Best Online Coding Platforms for Kids in 2021

One of the most important questions on every parent’s mind is what’s the one essential skill for kids to learn in 2021? The answer is undoubtedly coding.

It is clear that coding is the new literacy in the 21st century. As such, educators and teachers around the world are looking for practical strategies to introduce coding to children.

February 8, 2019

Kids Coding, Part 4

Previous lessons have all been focused on teaching our ten- and eight-year-olds some coding, since our six-year-old (Yakov) is still working on reading and writing in English. However, Yakov’s been home sick all week, and he asked me today to teach him some programming. So I came up with a simplified version focused solely on the GHCi prompt.

I started off with:

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