Tynker Blog

Tech Trends Now 04/22/13 New company Tynker believes that young children in elementary school should be taught coding, to address our technologically saturated society and that many children will benefit from a simple understanding of computers and programming as they grow up. Many other companies have spoken out before about making coding education more widely available. The new tool called […]

Tynker is a platform that can be flexibly integrated into a classroom or school. While some schools use it in their formal computer programming curriculums, other schools use it to enhance learning in classes like math, science, art and so forth. Still others have used it in extracurricular coding clubs, like this Lunchtime Club. Kids from across grades get together […]

ReadWrite 04/19/13 Until last February, Janine Holsinger had never typed a single line of code. But the Columbus, Ohio, entrepreneur wasn’t going to let that get in the way of her dreams. She signed up for a service called Treehouse, paid the monthly fee of $25, and devoted 8-10 hours a day to learning Ruby on Rails. “Within a few days, […]

Coding Geekette 04/18/13 While on Twitter yesterday, The Linux Foundation tweeted a link to this VentureBeat article on why your 8-year-old should be coding.  Being a programmer and now a mom, I have to question 8 years old as the right spot.  For me, especially watching my son tinker with things at 1, I’d love to teach him programming earlier.  Apparently I’m not […]

Engage Their Minds 04/18/13 First of all, I have a confession to make; I know very little about programming.  What I do know is that it is wonderful for teaching problem solving skills and logic.  I also know that those skills, and programming specifically, are in high demand in our nation’s job market. So it makes sense that we should […]

Tynker recently launched for schools and educators, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Thank you for all your great comments and for your endorsement of our vision. It’s one that we’ve lived and breathed in the last several months, as we’ve worked to develop our platform. It’s thrilling to see that parents, teachers, and schools are just as excited as we […]

The Fiscal Times 04/17/2013 In the past, third-graders may have struggled with multiplication tables and division, but today’s new generation of elementary school kids could soon be bringing home Java script and HTML worksheets. The startup Tynker Learning Platform, which launched last week, is planning to teach children to code as early as age 5. Tynker is the brainchild of […]

Hometech Products 04/15/13 Various startups are already in on the movement to make learning how to code more accessible to the general populous, but a new tool was released last week aimed at educating children on the subject. The new company is called Tynker, and they want children to begin learning code in elementary school. Tynker believes that in our […]

The Tynker Learning Platform is a program designed to teach computer programming skills to students in elementary, middle and high school. Created by Tynker, this program has the potential to change the way computer science and literacy courses are taught nationwide. The Tynker Learning Platform goes well beyond teaching basic fundamentals. Instruction on how to boot your computer, typing, and older programming languages were the central […]