I want to learn about: Coding

In programming, data structures allow us to store information in an orderly fashion. They help to properly organize data to solve more complex problems or to do it in a more efficiently. In previous posts, we talked about data structures in programming, specifically arrays and matrices. Today we will look at another type of data […]

Computational thinking has been booming in education since it was included in the new educational curricula. Here, it is proposed that computational skills are worked on transversally like other subjects, but… What is Computational Thinking? Definitions of Computational Thinking The first definition was introduced by Jeannette Wing in 2006: “Computational thinking involves solving problems, designing […]

Robby’s laboratory is an activity within Smartick Coding that is used to teach concepts about the use of variables, input, output, and different types of data in programming. In the laboratory, we can find data that are numbers, shapes, or letters, but we can also find new data there, such as Boolean operators. What are […]

New Activity in Smartick Coding: The Laboratory Robby is very excited because he has just accessed the laboratory! It is a new activity in Smartick Coding, the tool for children to learn programming through play. Robby’s laboratory is a new environment to teach concepts like the use of variables, input and output, and types of […]

In a previous post, we spoke about basic coding concepts: instructions and control structures. Today we will expand on the topic a bit more and explain the different programming exercises children learn with Smartick Coding. All teachers agree on the importance of reading code as much as possible in order to write it correctly. This […]

In this post, we will talk about the first setting that is presented to students to learn how to code. We decided to teach these first steps through robotics, which is the branch of programming that is closest to the physical world and more attainable at an early age. The first thing that we work […]

What is Smartick Coding? In each Smartick Coding session, children work on computational thinking that, we will discuss in this and future posts, is very closely related to mathematical, logical, and abstract thinking. Smartick Coding is an ambitious project that works from the most basic control flow structures until Boolean algebra or the basics of […]

Smartick supports the Hour of Code! A global initiative that takes place during Computer Science Education Week, December 3rd – 9th. What is the Hour of Code? The Hour of Code aims to promote programming around the world, demonstrating that anyone can learn the basics and increase the number of children and adults in the […]