Engaging graphics and story lines get kids programming
Submitted 10 years ago
Community Review for Tynker
My Take
I like that fact that Tynker offers some of their products for free. No accounts are needed. Students have options to solve puzzles and create artwork. Students get a valuable easily-accessible view into how coding works with drag and drop command blocks.
How I Use It
I use Tynker during the Week of Code. Students are given puzzles within a storyline. The series of puzzles introduce new coding features such as the repeat command. My students love the brightly-colored graphics. The hints and help boxes are text heavy; some students need to be encouraged to read these to get the most out of the challenges. I often pair students, especially those in grades 2 and 3.
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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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