Helping Kids with Coding For Dummies
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As a summary from the book, here are some ideas for programs you and your young coder can write, separated by programming language. Although these are the ones presented in this book, you can also imagine creating almost any of these in the other languages too. When in doubt, search the Internet for examples of programs you want to build in the languages you want to build them in—luckily there is almost always a near-example that can help guide you!

Scratch

Question and Answer Game

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Asteroid Game

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Costume Changer with Sounds

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Helicopter Flying

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Crypto Code Breaker

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Rock-Paper-Scissors

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Random Art Maker 1

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Random Art Maker 2

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Race

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Greeter

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Micro:bit

Stock Ticker

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Face Maker

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MIT App Inventor

Mobile App Game

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Greeter

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JavaScript/HTML/CSS

Greeter

Note: Be sure you have a file called “puppy.jpg” in the same folder as your HTML file so that the image actually appears.

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Picture Hider

Note: Be sure you have files called “puppy.jpg” and “kitten.jpeg” in the same folder as your HTML file so that the images actually appears.

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Webpage

Note: Be sure you have files called “winston.jpg,” “princess.jpg,” and “luke.jpg” in the same folder as your HTML file so that the images actually appear!

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Python

Mad Libs Game

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Number Guesser

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Greeter

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Art Maker

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Fibonacci Printer

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Java

Pizza Divider

The Pizza Divider is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.

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Greeter

The Greeter is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.

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Number Sorter

The Number Sorter is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.

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Phone Number Finder

The Phone Number Finder is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.

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About This Article

This article is from the book:

About the book authors:

Camille McCue, PhD, is Director of Curriculum Innovations at the Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas where she leads the Startup Incubator, teaches STEM, and kickstarts K-12 learning initiatives. Sarah Guthals, PhD, co-founded an ed-tech company and now continues to build technology for kids to learn, create, and share safely online. She loves to teach teachers how to teach coding in the classroom.

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