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Web Update: New Paint Editor Drawing Tool The Tynker Workshop on Web has a new drawing tool that will make it even easier for students to draw assets for their projects. This new tool is called the paint editor, and it’s more intuitive for kids to learn and use. Our old vector drawing tool is still available and is still […]

New! Learn How to Draw Custom Graphics with the Tynker App With the new Tynker app update, children can draw their own assets for the games and projects they program. This gives them an awesome new degree of freedom to create fun and exciting projects. From designing game assets to drawing Actors for school projects to creating custom stop-motion animations, Tynker’s […]

Safe Sharing with the Tynker App With Tynker’s publishing feature, kids can share the amazing projects they’ve built and see what others are making. The Tynker app allows children to publish projects that they’ve built to the Tynker community. Other kids can see published projects, “heart” them to bookmark them and show support, explore projects to see how they work, then […]

With over 50 new starter templates, the Tynker App update makes it even easier for kids to start building cool projects with code! Our many new interactive coding tutorials guide kids every step of the way. We’ve also made several usability improvements to make drag-and-drop coding more accessible and intuitive.            Step-by-Step Coding Tutorials The new step-by-step […]

Note: This post is archived. We have moved onto using Jupyter notebooks on Counter Hack and Sky Pirates to help kids learn JavaScript. We are excited to announce a wonderful feature that will enable kids to learn coding with blocks and then move on to real text based code when they are ready. Using the new Code View in Tynker workshop, […]

Many kids tell us that building customizable characters is one of their favorite features of Tynker. So we decided to take our Character Animation Studio to the next level to inspire kids to create games and stories featuring beautifully rendered, fluidly animated characters, and new programming commands to make it easy to add realistic characters to their games. Kids can easily create customized, […]

School is just around the corner — last  year ended with a bang with more than a million amazing projects created by students. We loved all the incredible feedback and suggestions that we received from enthusiastic teachers and students asking for more fun and learning with Tynker. We’ve been busy all summer long, working on everything you asked for. We […]

Tynker’s Hour of Code experience is here. Tynker is proud to be a partner and curriculum provider for the Hour of Code 2013, the CSEdWeek and code.org nationwide initiative to introduce computer programming to children. We are excited to share our tutorials with you. We’ve built a series of game and puzzle based programming activities, appropriate for beginner (grades 1 to […]

Say Hello to Prof. Ada, Dr. Glitch, and Pixel! Tynker Home launched just over a month ago, with a fun self-paced programming course for children in Grades 4 to 8. We’re thrilled with the great response from parents and children – a huge endorsement of our vision! We don’t mind the extensive media coverage either –  TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOm and Gizmag to […]