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downloaded the apps, will test these with our 4 year old over a few days.

What mobile apps that effectively teach kids programming would you recommend? I have seen Scratch mentioned, and some Minecraft mods, any others that would actually work? The UK has an initiative to teach primary school kids programming, but I dread to think what the quality of teachers or children to teacher ratio will be.




If your kid likes wizards. This looks like fun: http://codespells.org/

They claim to have tested this with kids at their university with great success (watch the video).


We like both Lightbot and Cargo-Bot

http://light-bot.com

http://twolivesleft.com/CargoBot/

Lightbot is easy enough for our 5-year-old. Our 7-year-old completed about half of Cargo-Bot (the latter half is challenging for us, both professional programmers).




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