Good coding app.
Submitted 10 years ago
Community Review for Tynker
Julie Y.
Teacher
South Portland High School
South Portland ME, US
My Take
I would recommend this to anyone looking to interest students in middle school or elementary school in coding. It's not quite a high school level application.
How I Use It
I tried this with a group of students when considering what app we would use to introduce coding to the classroom. This didn't make the cut- because my class wanted something more advanced. We settled on Codea, which is a little more like actual coding. There is nothing wrong with this app- it's a good coding app that is cute and simple, my high school class just wanted something more.
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Mika N.
Concerned student
January 10, 2025
Why Tynker, why!?
I am a school student making a project for my class. I made it originally in VScode, using HTML and vanilla JS. For some reason, even though I am not using any libraries and it works fine on websites such as JSFiddle and playcode.io, it doesn't work here. What's even more annoying is that it doesn't even give me any errors to fix! I don't even know what's not working! It's infuriating. Now if I had it my way, I would just make my project in VScode and send the files to my teacher without even bothering with this website, but he says that if it isn't on here, he'll remove 20% from my grade. I feel like this could be a good site for coders who would be a little less experienced than me, but if you can't run vanilla JS and HTML projects, it really removes from the overall efficiency of the site. I hope you can take up my feedback, and I hope that it helps improve the site. Thank you.
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Margaret B.
Thomas T.
Cherry Hill, NJ
February 15, 2021
A powerful tool that can open a door of possibilities for many.
This would serve as a powerful teaching tool to introduce anyone to the world of coding. Technology is the future and coding is much needed skill as we advance as a world in tech. The nebulous tools and projects available gives opportunity to explore all the possibilities that computer science has to offer. I can imagine this being used by children in middle-school or high school as the interface is not as friendly as some other programs out there.
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