Programming & Coding Apps
Whether you want to introduce basic coding to your child or help a middle schooler dive deeper into their passion, these apps will help. Using these apps, kids can understand how coding works and the overall basics of programming.
Train – Code Visually
Train-Code Visually is a great program that has fun to offer to a very wide range of users, from the very young to the student of computer programming. It uses a virtual toy train set to allow users to build and experiment with commands that can be transferred to computer programming concepts, like loops, variables, and more.
Code Adventures: Programming for Kids
App Info Price: Overview Code Adventures provides young children with the perfect system to learn foundational ideas about computer programming. Each level presents an increasingly challenging task to for the small furry character to accomplish, and children will need to exercise logic, sequencing, and creativity skills to incorporate new commands and put everything in the …
Fregger’s Play: Learn to Code in 3D
Help kids learn to code and encourage them to create their own games with Fregger’s Play: Learn to Code in 3D.
Handybot
Use your logic and creative thinking skills to get the robot down the hole in Handybot, a fun logic-based game.
Blimp Code
Blimp Code is a computer programming puzzle that will challenge reading comprehension, memory, and logic skills as players follow along with tutorials and hints, and then attempt to solve the puzzles to save the world.
Best Apps for Back to School – 5th Grade
Here are some of the best of the best apps for fifth graders as they head back to school. This list includes reviewed and recommended apps to help practice fractions, basic math, and grammar. There are also some apps that will open doors of programming and science. Enjoy! The Everything Machine The Everything Machine gives …
Programming Apps for Kids
While the Hour of Code event seems to be growing in popularity each year, don’t wait until then to download these apps. Your kids will enjoy these all year, some may become permanent residents on your device.
The Everything Machine
The Everything Machine offers a great combination of programming practice, logic skills, and sequencing as well as a healthy dose of creativity by giving users tools to access the Apple device’s input and output features with switches, timers, and even transmitters.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 4th Grade
There are so many great educational apps in the App Store for elementary school-aged children, we couldn’t narrow it down to our top 5 reviewed and recommended apps for 4th grade. Our list covers apps for encouraging creative writing and self-expression, text and visual design, scientific inquiry and observation, spelling, coding for kids and even …
Robot School: Programming for Kids
Robot School gives kids a chance to rescue a stranded robot while learning basic computer programming skills and developing a better understanding of how computers work. Along the way, they will build logic skills, observation skills, attention to detail, and other important life skills.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade
Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade Our reviewed and recommended apps for 1st grade develop literacy and numeracy skills, place value concepts, geometry, thinking and logic skills, cause and effect skills, and more. Take a look at these apps. Best 1st Grade Apps ScratchJr ScratchJr is a hands-on learning environment that …
Cato’s Hike: A Programming and Logic Odyssey
Cato’s Hike is an entertaining and engaging app that will teach players concepts about creating computer programs. It encourages problem-solving, logic, attention to details, and many more vital skills that will be needed by adults no matter what career they may choose.
ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a unique and powerful app that will empower young elementary students to learn beginning concepts of computer programming while they build skills in problem-solving, sequencing, memory and more.
5 Free Coding Apps for Kids
These 5 apps are completely free (no in app purchases) and great way to introduce kids to coding.
Apps for Hour of Code Week
My 5th Grader is teaching 3rd Graders at his school the app, Kodable. Why? Because this week is Hour of Code. Hour of Code is a nationwide initiative to introduce computer programming to 10 million students. Bottom-line, it’s supposed to demystify – and make fun- coding and programming. These apps are succeeding in doing just …