I don’t know about you, but the thought of learning to code kind of makes my head spin! However, I know this is quickly becoming a very important skill for our children to have. Thus finding coding classes, or more specifically coding for kids, is something you may want to consider.

Coding for Kids with CodaKid Online

Coding is quickly becoming as essential to a child’s education as science and math. CodaKid is an online platform that offers coding courses for kids.

You can choose from either:

• Self-study Courses which are great for students that problem solving independently and learn well from video. There are currently 72 courses 300 quests, and 750 challenges, with new courses added frequently!
• 1on1 Private Tutoring is the fastest way to learn and is best for students that work best with structure and accountability. This option offers online live instruction for USA-based instructors from universities such as Standford, MIT, Brown, and Cornell.

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Self-Paced Coding Courses for Kids

My grandson recently started using the CodaKid Self-Paced option. I was so pleased to see so many included courses! Not only that, there is such a variety of levels to choose from.

My grandson is 8 and has no coding experience. He was able to start with the Coding in Scratch videos (of which there are 17 – see more about this below). Scratch is a very simple and FREE coding platform. The CodaKid videos walk kids through how to navigate within the Scratch platform and then how to start creating and coding. Within the first day he was able to create and play his very own game!

As you can see in the photo above my grandson was working on a computer with two screens. While you don’t need to have this set up to use the courses, we find it’s so much easier to have a full screen for the CodaKid videos and a separate full screen for the game they are working on coding in.

Courses Included in Self-Study CodaKid Program

15 Minecraft Coding Courses

There are currently 15 Minecraft Courses which include 85 quests and 180 challenges. They are suited for kids 8+ and are the perfect way to learn Java Programming with the professional text editor Eclipse. Kids can make custom mods for Minecraft that they can share with their family and friends!

There are courses for designing their own custom sword and give it powers; learn to design and code their own custom mob; create their own custom biome; make their own fire-ball-shooting Ender dragon and so much more!

13 Roblox Coding Courses for Kids

There are currently 13 Roblox Coding Courses which include 53 quests and 161 challenges. These are also suited to kids ages 8+ and provide a way for kids to learn Lua programming and game design with Roblox Studio. They can make professional quality games to play with friends and family, or even sell on Roblox marketplace.

There are courses for learning to make an obstacle course, adventure map, and even pets. They will also learn to create marble games, infinite runner games, tycoon games and so much more!

10 Game Programming Courses

There are currently 10 Game Programming Courses which include 94 quests and 44 challenges. These are suited to kids ages 9+ and provide a way for kids to learn Python and JavaScript programming with IDLE and Atom test editors.

There are courses for using Python code to hack into the mainframe of a hostile enemy; creating 2D Attack of the Robots style game; use JavaScript to build a 2D Infinite Runner style game, and so much more!

17 Scratch Coding Courses

Coding in Scratch is a great option for younger learners who are new to coding and game design. There are currently 17 Scratch Coding Courses which include 50 quests and 150 challenges. Kids learn to make games using Scratch’s visual block coding language, while gaining skills they’ll need to make the jump to text-based coding (which what the other coding courses teach).

Kids will learn to make a fun game where the player scores points by clicking on a fast, very sneaky cat who doesn’t’ want to get caught; to make an Infinite Runner style game; make an archery game, fruit slash game and so much more!

4 Specialty Coding Courses

CodaKid’s Specialty Courses introduce a series of exciting projects using coding languages such as HTML/CSS and Arduino. Students gain real world skills with languages used by professional engineers around the world.

They can become a keyboard master by playing a video game that involves fast keyboard action; learn how to create and publish a professional quality web page from the ground up, and more!

More Online Curriculum Options

There are so many great online resources to use in your homeschool. Here are just a few more things that might interest you.