I talk to many parents of young coders through free avenues and events - mainly the Breakout Mentors 15 minute phone consultation and CoderDojo Silicon Valley. Everyone wants to support their kid's interest in programming and give them the …
Check Out the Impressive Projects Shared by Kids at Our 2015 Student Showcase
Our students working with 1-on-1 programming mentors have made some fun projects over the course of the year. In early June we had our second annual Student Showcase event, where they had the opportunity to share a project and see what other kids …
How Non-Coder Parents Can Learn to Engage their Young Programmer
As a busy parent, you have no interest in learning how to code. After a long day, the last thing you want to do is to spend many hours learning computer programming you won't use. But your young son or daughter loves coding and you want to be able to …
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How to Navigate the Tricky Transition Between Scratch and a Typed Programming Language
In the same sense that studying English isn’t just about learning vocabulary words, studying computer science isn’t about learning programming languages. Programming is very abstract, it is a way of communicating with the computer, and the language …
Solving Sudoku – The Story of How a College CS Student Inspired and Taught 3 Kids to Code
This article is by Austin Gandy, one of our exciting programming mentors. He is a junior at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science and has been a mentor for a year and a half. With a look of nervous anticipation on his face, Nico ran the program …
Getting to Know Our Newest Kids Coding Mentors
Breakout Mentors underwent a lot of growth in 2014, welcoming over a dozen talented new mentors! We recently updated the Our Mentors section of the website to include some of the mentors that joined in the last year. We have a wide variety of …
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The People First Approach to Learning to Code
There is a massive shift underway in education: more and more resources and courses are available online to learn nearly every subject. Access to all this knowledge makes it an incredible time to be a student! One natural question you might ask - …
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It’s Already 2015! Let’s Support Kids that Want to Learn to Code
Can you believe it is already 2015? With the new year comes New Year's resolutions. Do you have one to support your kid's interests? There are thousands of kids in the Bay Area that want to learn to code. Some just love Minecraft and think it …
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