ICT Central's List: Programming

Since MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten group released Scratch in 2007, kids ages 8 to 13 have built more than 2.2 million animations, games, music, videos and stories using the kid-friendly programming language.

Some great languages and environments to make programming easier and more fun to get started with.

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.

This group was created to support education of programming and computational thinking for the current and next generations in the UK.

Kodu is a visual programming tool which builds on ideas begun with Logo in the 1960s and other current projects such as AgentSheets, Squeak and Alice. It is designed to be accessible by children and enjoyable by anyone.

Processing is an incredibly accessible computer language for beginners, but it is also a stepping stone to widely used professional programming languages like Java and C++ that may contribute to success in corporate and academic arenas for those who are code literate.

Here is a collection of some useful frameworks to develop easily HTML-based webapps that will work on all popular smartphone and tablet touch platforms.

Technology is central to most young people's lives, but there is a disconnect between how they use it at home and how they are taught it.