Children’s programming teaching can be roughly divided into two categories:
The first category is Scratch or Scratch-like graphical programming teaching, which mainly focuses on cultivating interest and exercising thinking, and is more interesting. powerful.
Here, you can create your own animations, stories, music and games. The process is actually as simple as building blocks. In addition, there is robot programming, which means building a robot and making it move by running a program, focusing on cultivating children's hands-on ability.
The other type is computer programming teaching based on high-level programming languages ??such as Python and C++. The goal is often to participate in technology brand events such as the Informatics Olympiad, such as the Informatics Olympiad/league, robot competitions, and technological innovation competitions. etc., or lay the foundation for subsequent professional learning and vocational skills. Here, you can become familiar with programming principles and perform code operations, which is suitable for children with a certain foundation in mathematics, English and logical thinking.
Things that can train children:
(1) Self-discipline. Each programming language has its own rules, and the operation of the program will be carried out completely in accordance with the rules. Programming can help children continuously improve their self-discipline through rigorous logical judgment and procedural rules. For example: If a child wants to play a game in his or her own mind, he or she needs to analyze, create, and test first before playing the game. This process is great for delaying gratification. Therefore, programming learning can exercise children's self-discipline.
(2) Autonomous learning ability Autonomous learning ability is mainly manifested in two aspects: one is active learning, and the other is efficient learning. This also starts with self-discipline. A self-disciplined person can actively learn well, but only with better learning methods can we achieve high efficiency.
In our lives, there are many such educational paths: children in kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, and high school have always been supervised by parents and managed by teachers, and the pressure and burden of learning are gradually increasing. In college, without the strict management of teachers, college life has become a paradise for relaxation. Such academic planning is unreasonable. This requires our children to have self-discipline and independent learning abilities in advance. Only in this way can we become the best.
(3) Expressive programming training places great emphasis on teamwork and exercises communication and coordination skills. Explain and demonstrate your own projects to continuously improve your expression skills. Good games or good projects created by oneself are more likely to stimulate the desire to share. Through this stimulation, children can continue to feel the fun brought by sharing and continuously improve their expressive power without knowing it.
(4) Creativity Children’s imagination is endless, and programming can express children’s ideas in combination with music, pictures, and codes. The sense of innovation will be well exercised in the process of children constantly realizing and expressing their inner thoughts, constantly innovating and thinking.