Coding (or, programming if you’re old school) is a very useful skill. Even if you don’t go on to be a professional, the skills of breaking tasks down to smaller sub-tasks is useful to anyone. Here are some ways to learn to code.
- Hour of Code is designed to be used during Computer Science Education Week. The idea is to have a one hour introduction to coding in school to let kids see if it interests them. There are many different tutorials in various languages (python, javascript, scratch, etc).
- CodeKingdoms is a way to learn JavaScript while playing a game.