Tynker Blog

Startupcity 04/12/13 With a new platform recently launched, the startup Tynker is now enabling kids of different ages to learn to program. Based in Mountain View, the startup’s focus is more on getting kids to now think like programmers rather than having long coded lines written. The curriculum of the company has in fact been piloted in more than forty […]

The Journal 04/11/13 Tynker has launched a new online learning platform designed to help elementary and middle school students learn computational thinking and programming skills in the classroom. The Tynker Learning Platform does not require teachers to have any experience with programming. It includes prepackaged lesson plans, hands-free interactive tutorials, advanced lesson generation tools, and paperless workflow for assigning and grading programming projects, […]

VentureBeat 04/11/13 While startups like Treehouse and Codecademy are bringing simple coding lessons to teens and adults, a new service launched today to help younger children learn how to code. The company is Tynker. Its core philosophy is that elementary school-aged children should understand the basics of how computers work and how they’re programmed. “We don’t think of programming skills as having […]

KidsWire 04/11/13 Recently-founded Tynker is on a mission to help children develop computational thinking and programming skills. The company has launched its free Tynker Learning Platform for elementary and middle schools and teachers across the United States and Canada. With pre-packaged lesson plans, hands-free interactive tutorials, advanced lesson generation tools and paperless workflow for assigning and grading programming projects, the Tynker Learning […]

App Developer Magazine 04/11/13 Tynker has launched a brand new program to help educate our children on how to program. It’s piloted as an introductory step into learning how to “think” like a programmer rather than writing long lines of complex code. They started the program in the San Francisco Bay area through around 40 schools, but it’s now expanding […]

TechCrunch 04/11/13 Mountain View-based startup Tynker is launching a new platform aimed at helping kids of all ages learn to program. Unlike traditional development environments, this introductory step into the world of programming is more about teaching kids how to think like a programmer, than it is about writing out long lines of code  The company has been piloting its curriculum in […]

GigaOm 04/11/13 Bill Gates’ first program may have been for tic-tac-toe, but the next generation of tech titans is getting a chance to learn coding by building projects that are even more creative – and colorful. Over the past few months, Mountain View, Calif.-based Tynker has been piloting its visual programming language with about 25 elementary and middle schools in the […]

4 Reasons Why Kids Should Learn to Program In recent years, the importance of programming has become a subject of increasing international awareness, moving from the narrow domain of the “geek” to the broader world, including the K-12 education space. Earlier this year, President Obama endorsed mandatory computer programming education in schools. And recently, a viral video from code.org encouraged students to learn to code. For those of […]

We started an interesting conversation on LinkedIn recently. Our CTO polled members of the LinkedIn group International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE): “How early should computer programming skills be introduced to kids?”  This is a screenshot of the poll results. The general consensus — almost 75% of people polled — was that students should learn to code starting in […]