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Srinivas Mandyam, CTO at Tynker In this post I want to share some new and exciting Tynker features specifically built for educators – the advanced grading features. These are now available in Tynker Premium for schools: Using the new Gradebook view Schools with a Tynker Premium account already enjoy the concept map tab where they can get an overview of […]

iLearn Technology 11/22/13 What it is: Tynker is about the coolest way for kids to learn how to computer program- absolutely NO prior programming experience is needed!  Tynker leads kids through design thinking through interactive courses where kids can learn how to program at their own pace. Anyone can teach kids how to program (no really!) because with Tynker, you don’t need any prior knowledge […]

Girls Innovate! Blog 11/20/2013 By Ann Saponara, Girls Innovate! Volunteer & Project Leader Girls Innovate! is very fortunate to have Vidya leading our Programming Workshop with Tynker, hosted generously by nestGSV, on November 24, 2013. Vidya Mandyam Vidya earned a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bangalore Institute of Technology, […]

ACM Education Council 2013 Meeting 11/14/13 I was honored to be invited to the ACM Education Council meeting on November 2nd, to speak on a panel about teaching young programmers how to code. I spoke alongside Jeremy Keeshin from CodeHS, Krishna Vedati from Tynker, and Neil Fraser from Google’s Blockly open source project. It was a great opportunity to meet people passionate about teaching […]

Explore the Coolest Tynker Apps Created by Children Did you know that over 150,000 projects have been created by children in hundreds of schools and homes while learning to code using Tynker? We’ve added a new Explore section so that you can play with some of the coolest Tynker apps made by children. Motivation is key when it comes to learning, and what better […]

I Programmer 10/27/13 As programmers we appreciate why knowing how to code is really important. But if you find it difficult to express why, this infographic gives five reasons – and I’m sure you can add more. During Computer Science Week, Code.org aims to give 10 million kids an hour of code. It may not be much but at least it’s a […]

Why children should learn how to program 10/27/13 There has, in the last couple of years, been a rising interest in teaching children as young as five how to program computers. A new computer science curriculum has been introduced into schools in England and there are many of out-of-school coding clubs up and down the country aimed at boosting programming […]

Looks like it’s never too early to start Tynkering! Kudos Dad and son! Adventures in Programming: Tynkering with My 5 Year Old 10/22/2013 I wrote my first program when I was 8 years old. It was a Centipede game programmed in BASIC on my ZX Spectrum, an 8-bit personal computer developed by Sinclair Research that my parents got me for birthday. Last […]

ReadWrite 10/18/13 Learning to code is all the rage these days, but not in one place that matters a lot: U.S. schools. U.S. students already significantly lag their global counterparts where math and science skills are concerned. But computer science is in even worse shape: Of 12 technical subjects examined in a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, computer science […]