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Father’s Day is this Sunday, and there’s no better way for Dad and the kids to spend some quality time together than to work on a coding project. Follow our newest tutorial to code a virtual game of golf featuring Dad! Kids can use code to customize swing speed and help Dad get a hole-in-one. Challenge your child to program […]

Father’s Day is a great time for your kids to spend quality time with their father or other important role models or mentors in their lives. Together, they can make a fun coding game about adding mustaches, glasses, hats, and more to their dad’s face. Your child can follow easy step-by-step instructions to upload a picture of their dad’s face, then draw […]

Father’s Day is coming right up! It’s the perfect day for kids to spend quality time with their fathers or other important role models. Father’s Day became an official holiday almost 60 years after Mother’s Day was recognized. A woman named Sonora Smart Dodd dreamed up the idea while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in her church! An innovative […]

A fun project just for dad! Follow easy instructions to customize the card with a personal message. It’s easy and should take less than 20 minutes to complete. Instructions: Click characters using the mouse before they disappear to unlock the secret message Ideas to personalize your project: Choose a fun background – Desert dunes, the beach or even outer space! Add the […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 5th grader Emma from Florida! She’d like to go to MIT and get a degree in robotics or coding! And, she also really likes cooking so she thinks being a pastry chef would be cool too! Emma talked with us about her experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? I wanted […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 7th grader Jordan from Wisconsin! He wants to be a football player when he grows up, but he’s also interested in computer science because he likes to be able to make things. Jordan talked with us about his experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? I got introduced to Tynker when […]

Over the last several years, the ability to code has gone from novelty to necessity. What once was considered an elective in school has quickly become a requirement, while tech is today’s fastest-growing job market. Meanwhile, the feedback we’ve gotten from Tynker parents and their children is clear: Can you code? In the next twenty to thirty years, your child […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 3rd grader Ian from New York! His favorite subject in school is math, and he likes to code because he can make whatever he wants! Ian talked with us about his experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? I got introduced to Tynker because we used it in our classroom at […]

Tynker has been developing Python and JavaScript courses and projects for years. And the feedback we get from the Tynker community has been very helpful in that process. That’s how we know that you want more capabilities and more tutorials! Are you a future artist or computer programmer? Have you tried text coding yet? It’s a great next step if […]