Children's programming education is a kind of programming education for children aged 6- 18. Different from traditional programming education, children's programming education focuses on cultivating children's computational thinking and innovative problem-solving ability through programming game enlightenment and visual graphic programming. There are usually two forms of education: offline education and online education.
Children's programming education mainly provides programming education for school-age teenagers. Generally speaking, according to the age, the educational goals are set in the way of easy before difficult. For example, in the primary school stage, experience is the mainstay, and with the help of building block programming tools, we can feel the programming ideas through the intuitive operation experience of concepts and functions such as objects, modules, control and execution. In junior high school, we try to design and realize the basic program structure with high-level programming language as a tool. High school students can use programming language to realize simple algorithms and solve practical problems.
Second, what are the benefits of children's programming education for children?
Now more and more parents attach importance to their children's programming education. On the one hand, it is the requirement of the development of the times, on the other hand, it also sees the promotion of relevant national policies. The continuous introduction of relevant policies on programming education by the state undoubtedly indicates that children's programming learning will become a general trend. Some top universities have certain preferential policies for students who are good at programming and have won prizes. In addition, the benefits of learning children's programming include:
1, cultivate abstract logical thinking ability
Programming is to edit people's thoughts into computer-readable language according to certain coding rules, which requires high logic, especially abstract logical thinking.
2. Cultivate the ability of trial and error.
To err is human, but traditional education in the past did not encourage trial and error, which easily led children to be afraid of making mistakes and unable to correctly face and deal with setbacks and failures. However, in the world of programming, bugs are common and programming is a process of trial and error. Children may be flustered when they first find out that they have done something wrong, but after a while they will get used to it and their psychological endurance will be greatly strengthened.
3. Cultivate children's concentration
Programming needs concentration and is rather boring. Therefore, children's programming education will let children learn on the basis of satisfying fun through fun-filled gamification learning.
4. Cultivate the ability to solve problems
Programming can make children's ideas come true, which is of great help to children's innovation ability, problem-solving ability and hands-on ability.
5. Develop language skills
The computer code used in programming is English, and communication with computers requires a certain foundation of English to write operable codes, which is conducive to training children's language level.
It can be seen that there are still many benefits for children to learn children's programming, but it should be noted that playing is a child's nature. Avoid fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. Only by persistence can we see the benefits of learning children's programming.