Keeping kids motivated and excited about coding.
Ask a kid what they want to build and you get a reasonable answer, not the true one. In 14 sessions, all three of my students had a hidden real project.
Scratch project ideas kids can build over summer, sorted by difficulty, with what each teaches. A tutor's picks to keep coding fun when school is out.
One of my students is building his own fighting game with the dream of putting it on Steam. Here is how we keep a young coder motivated through a hard project.
Why I moved a game-dev student from C# to Python, what I worried about, and why he thrived. A tutor's honest take on language fit for kids.
What I learned teaching twin brothers to code together while their older sister took a different path. A tutor on siblings, pace, and personalized learning.
The 30-second trick that makes kids care about code: replace generic examples with their obsession. A real tutor's pedagogy, with parent-ready scripts.
A 10-year-old directing AI to build a game shows what kid-AI collaboration really looks like. Inside the SpongeBob burger moment and what it taught me.
I teach kids coding for a living and I'm fine with Roblox Studio. The Roblox pay-to-win economy aimed at children is a different story. Here's what parents should do.
Frustration is normal in coding, but when it becomes a pattern, something specific is wrong. Here's what causes it and exactly what to do about it.
The fastest way to get a child interested in coding is to connect it to what they already love. Here's how to do that at every age, and how to keep the motivation going.