MIT app inventor

[v-600]

Has anybody had any experience with this.

I am a primary school teacher, who has dabbled with a bit of python in the past, and was thinking of running a club for some 10 year olds. I figure instead of just making movies using a tablet, they might as well be actually making apps.

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/

We'll see how it goes, but if anybody has any advice or knows any specific child friendly coding intros, that would be cool.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Alice might be good for them:

http://www.alice.org/index.php

 

[v-600]

I had a quick look at that and mentioned it to our head of ICT. He has used it before but didn't seem too taken with it. I think it might become a back burner idea for me.

 

[chusteczka]

I have not used any of these.

http://code.org/
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/7-apps-teaching-children-coding-anna-adam
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=learn+to+%28program+|+code%29+children