Enjoying supervising a group of kids at my son’s school with programming. The kids play around with Scratch and MicroBit and I help them when they get stuck and try to get the occasional bit of theory across, you know: how a computer works, bits, bytes and logic operations and so on. It’s amazing how fast they’re able to pick up practical skills, but abstraction is obviously a lot harder still for this age group (9-12 years old). Nevertheless, I’m even quite impressed with how willing they are to accept counting in a different base like 2 or 16 for example.
This is my own little project. “Elon vs Martian”:
Coding using blocks is definitely not my thing, but you can get started really quickly if you have no prior knowledge. I’d definitely recommend to check it out: https://scratch.mit.edu/