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Coding for Kids

Scratch, robotics, Arduino, and AI basics for children — fun, visual, project-based learning

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Visual / Block Coding
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Build a simple Scratch game with sprites and events
Text Coding for Kids
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Write a Python script with variables and loops
AI for Young Learners
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Train an image classifier with Teachable Machine
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Computer Applications for Primary School Children: A Fun + Safe Guide for Ages 6-12
Dev.to · Ogunkola Adeola 🧒 Coding for Kids ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Computer Applications for Primary School Children: A Fun + Safe Guide for Ages 6-12
Computers aren’t just for typing anymore. For primary school kids in 2026, they’re tools for...
From 0 to 20 Chapters: My Story‑Driven Rust Book for Kids Now Has a Bilingual Interactive Demo
Dev.to · born1987-ir 🧒 Coding for Kids ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
From 0 to 20 Chapters: My Story‑Driven Rust Book for Kids Now Has a Bilingual Interactive Demo
🦀 The Land of Rust – A Space Crab Teaches Kids (and Adults) to Code A few months ago I...
Medium · Programming 🧒 Coding for Kids ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
How Kids Can Build Fighting Games Stickman in Scratch
A fun and interactive way to learn coding through action games Continue reading on Medium »
Coding Platform for Kids: A Simple Guide to Start Learning Programming
Dev.to · Coding Learning Lab 🧒 Coding for Kids ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Coding Platform for Kids: A Simple Guide to Start Learning Programming
As technology continues to grow, many parents are now looking for a reliable coding platform for kids...
OFAC Screening Is Not Optional and Your Fintech Probably Isn't Doing It Right
Dev.to · easysolutions906 🧒 Coding for Kids 3mo ago
OFAC Screening Is Not Optional and Your Fintech Probably Isn't Doing It Right
Why OFAC sanctions screening matters, what happens when you get it wrong and how to integrate it without building everything from scratch.
I Rewrote Pokemon Yellow Entirely in TypeScript — Here's How It Runs in Your Browser
Dev.to · Gidi Dafner 🧒 Coding for Kids 3mo ago
I Rewrote Pokemon Yellow Entirely in TypeScript — Here's How It Runs in Your Browser
I spent months rewriting Pokemon Yellow from scratch in TypeScript. Not an emulator — a complete...
I'm building a real-time OS for brain-computer interfaces in Rust — here's why the existing stack is broken
Dev.to · AxonOS 🧒 Coding for Kids 3mo ago
I'm building a real-time OS for brain-computer interfaces in Rust — here's why the existing stack is broken
AxonOS is a bare-metal, no_std Rust kernel for BCI devices. 1.03ms end-to-end latency, 82.4% 4-class accuracy with 8 EEG channels, zero deadline misses across 1
From client-go to controller-runtime: Rebuilding a Kubernetes Controller
Dev.to · Ankur Sinha 🧒 Coding for Kids 3mo ago
From client-go to controller-runtime: Rebuilding a Kubernetes Controller
In my previous article, I built a Kubernetes controller from scratch using client-go, informers, and...
What’s Really Happening Inside AI When It “Thinks”? (Day 3/30 - Beginner AI Series)
Dev.to · Ankit Dey 🧒 Coding for Kids 3mo ago
What’s Really Happening Inside AI When It “Thinks”? (Day 3/30 - Beginner AI Series)
Welcome back to Day 3 of AI From Scratch. So far, we’ve basically met the brain and...
Solved: For those of you who grew up poor but became rich. How did you actually do it?
Dev.to · Darian Vance 🧒 Coding for Kids 3mo ago
Solved: For those of you who grew up poor but became rich. How did you actually do it?
🚀 Executive Summary TL;DR: Many junior developers are trapped by a ‘scarcity mindset’ and...
MILP From Scratch in Pure Rust — No Dependencies, Full Branch and Bound
Dev.to · Mayuresh Smita Suresh 🧒 Coding for Kids 4mo ago
MILP From Scratch in Pure Rust — No Dependencies, Full Branch and Bound
If you’ve ever seen terms like linear programming, integer optimisation, or Branch and Bound and felt...
Building a WebGPU Library from Scratch
Dev.to · Phantasm0009 🧒 Coding for Kids 4mo ago
Building a WebGPU Library from Scratch
I wanted a NumPy-like API that ran on the GPU in the browser. No training graphs, no autograd—just...
Triple-Tier Responsive E-commerce Header
Dev.to · Codebar Library 🧒 Coding for Kids 4mo ago
Triple-Tier Responsive E-commerce Header
Building an e-commerce header from scratch is painful. You need a top utility bar, a navigation hub,...
I Built a Usage-Based Billing Engine From Scratch — Here's How It Works
Dev.to · ajithmanmu 🧒 Coding for Kids 4mo ago
I Built a Usage-Based Billing Engine From Scratch — Here's How It Works
I spent the last few weeks building MeterFlow — a usage-based billing engine that handles event...
How I Built My Django Portfolio Website from Scratch (Step-by-Step Guide)
Dev.to · Anonymous 🧒 Coding for Kids 4mo ago
How I Built My Django Portfolio Website from Scratch (Step-by-Step Guide)
If you're learning Django and wondering whether you should build a portfolio with it — the answer is...
Fine-Tuning Your First AI Model: Custom Training a Text Classifier for Real-World Data
Dev.to · Paul Robertson 🧒 Coding for Kids 4mo ago
Fine-Tuning Your First AI Model: Custom Training a Text Classifier for Real-World Data
Learn to fine-tune custom text classifiers from scratch, moving beyond API calls to build AI models tailored to your specific domain data and requirements.
A Reflection from a CS Student and Aspiring Junior Developer
Dev.to · Sabin Sim 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
A Reflection from a CS Student and Aspiring Junior Developer
Like many places around the world, I feel that as AI continues to advance, the entry barrier for...
Malloc-ation: How I Built My Own malloc from Scratch
Dev.to · Rahul Shankar 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
Malloc-ation: How I Built My Own malloc from Scratch
Abstract: malloc looks simple. You pass in the size you need, and it hands you a...
Docker for Beginners: Stop saying "It works on my machine."
Dev.to · Frank Oge 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
Docker for Beginners: Stop saying "It works on my machine."
There is a sentence that every Junior Developer says at least once. It’s the sentence that makes...
You Don't Need Devise: Building Secure Rails Auth from Scratch
Dev.to · Zil Norvilis 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
You Don't Need Devise: Building Secure Rails Auth from Scratch
The "Devise" Dilemma We’ve all been there. You run rails new, and the very next command is...
Migrating from .NET to NestJS: Why I Decided to Stop Rewriting and Embrace the Legacy Code
Dev.to · Uchkun Rakhimov 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
Migrating from .NET to NestJS: Why I Decided to Stop Rewriting and Embrace the Legacy Code
Rewriting a project from scratch is every developer's dream—and often, a business’s nightmare....
Building a mini PyTorch in C++ from scratch as a high school student...
Dev.to · Rajdeep 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
Building a mini PyTorch in C++ from scratch as a high school student...
INTRODUCTION My background? I've spent the past 5 years doing game dev in C#. Last year I...
Build Your First 3D Rotating Cube from Scratch (No Libraries)
Dev.to · Melvin Cheah 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
Build Your First 3D Rotating Cube from Scratch (No Libraries)
Build Your First 3D Rotating Cube from Scratch (No Libraries) What You'll...
How I Moved a KMP Project from Scratch to Production on 5 Platforms (and What I Learned)
Dev.to · Mykhailo Dorokhin 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
How I Moved a KMP Project from Scratch to Production on 5 Platforms (and What I Learned)
I'm moving a small Kotlin Multiplatform project to production across 5 platforms. This is my...
Closures & Lexical Scope: How JavaScript Functions "Remember" Where They Were Born
Dev.to · Tihomir Ivanov 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
Closures & Lexical Scope: How JavaScript Functions "Remember" Where They Were Born
Ask a junior developer to explain closures, and you'll likely get a nervous laugh. Ask a senior...
Stop Writing Image Processing Code From Scratch — This Rust-Powered Package Does It 950x Faster
Dev.to · Aissam Irhir 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
Stop Writing Image Processing Code From Scratch — This Rust-Powered Package Does It 950x Faster
What if I told you that the image processing code you've been writing for hours could be reduced to a...
How I Would Learn Web3 From Scratch Today (Without Wasting a Year)
Dev.to · Emir Taner 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
How I Would Learn Web3 From Scratch Today (Without Wasting a Year)
If I had to start learning Web3 today, I’d do one thing differently: stop collecting knowledge and...
The Missing Piece in AI Agents: Continual Learning
Dev.to · Ashok Naik 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
The Missing Piece in AI Agents: Continual Learning
Why the smartest AI still can't learn like a junior developer—and what we can do about it ...
I Built a Game Engine from Scratch in C++ (Here's What I Learned)
Dev.to · Melvin Cheah 🧒 Coding for Kids 5mo ago
I Built a Game Engine from Scratch in C++ (Here's What I Learned)
I Built a Game Engine from Scratch in C++ (Here's What I Learned) I crashed my GPU 47...
Why I Chose Custom Code Over CMS — As a Freelance Dev Starting from Scratch
Dev.to · Hugo Calmels 🧒 Coding for Kids 6mo ago
Why I Chose Custom Code Over CMS — As a Freelance Dev Starting from Scratch
When I started freelancing, I had zero agency experience, no professional network, and no client...
Feature Comparison : Nop Platform vs. SpringCloud
Dev.to · canonical 🧒 Coding for Kids 6mo ago
Feature Comparison : Nop Platform vs. SpringCloud
The Nop Platform is a next-generation low-code platform designed and implemented from scratch based...
Why I Built Yet Another Mediator (And Why You Might Care)
Dev.to · 1 Pouria Dev 🧒 Coding for Kids 6mo ago
Why I Built Yet Another Mediator (And Why You Might Care)
Let me start with a confession: I built AnAspect.Mediator to scratch my own itch. And like most...
Building a Production-Ready Webhook Delivery System in 5 Minutes
Dev.to · Jbee - codehooks.io 🧒 Coding for Kids 6mo ago
Building a Production-Ready Webhook Delivery System in 5 Minutes
Building a webhook delivery system from scratch is deceptively complex. You need URL verification,...
My First Week Learning Python & Django — Notes From a Non-CS Beginner
Dev.to · PyOps Lab 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
My First Week Learning Python & Django — Notes From a Non-CS Beginner
Hey everyone 👋 I’m Harsh, a non-CS beginner learning Python, Django, and DevOps from scratch. This is...
Fixing Git "Out of Diskspace" Error When You Actually Have Space The Misleading Error
Dev.to · Alin Ciovica 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
Fixing Git "Out of Diskspace" Error When You Actually Have Space The Misleading Error
I recently encountered a frustrating Git issue that had me scratching my head. While working on a...
How I Built a 140 FPS Real-Time Face Landmark App with Just YOLOv9 + MediaPipe (5-Part Series)
Dev.to · MohammadReza Mahdian 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
How I Built a 140 FPS Real-Time Face Landmark App with Just YOLOv9 + MediaPipe (5-Part Series)
A fast, clean, production-ready face detection + detailed facial landmark pipeline built from scratch...
Learning AI From Scratch: Streaming Output, the Secret Sauce Behind Real-Time LLMs
Dev.to · Dechun Wang 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
Learning AI From Scratch: Streaming Output, the Secret Sauce Behind Real-Time LLMs
1. Why Streaming Output Matters Let’s start with the pain. If you’ve ever built a chatbot...
Code legacy: Analyzing Erlang's C and C++ modules that have been running for decades
Dev.to · Unicorn Developer 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
Code legacy: Analyzing Erlang's C and C++ modules that have been running for decades
Code for some Erlang/OTP modules is older than most modern junior developers. These files are the...
Building an ML Language from Scratch: Introducing Charl
Dev.to · Mitchel Novoa Q. 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
Building an ML Language from Scratch: Introducing Charl
I spent the last year building Charl - a programming language designed specifically for machine...
Case Study: Building a Full-Stack Event Management App in Python & Django
Dev.to · amalraj 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
Case Study: Building a Full-Stack Event Management App in Python & Django
The Goal: A Full-Stack App From Scratch I wanted to build a complete web application from scratch to...
Building Git from Scratch in Go: What I Learned About Version Control Internals
Dev.to · Uthman Oladele 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
Building Git from Scratch in Go: What I Learned About Version Control Internals
I didn't understand Git until I broke it open and rebuilt it from scratch. No libraries, no shortcuts...
Why JavaScript Never Adopted RxJS — It Solved a Problem JavaScript Never Had
Dev.to · Ayush Maurya 🧒 Coding for Kids 7mo ago
Why JavaScript Never Adopted RxJS — It Solved a Problem JavaScript Never Had
A junior developer once asked me: “RxJS has been around for years, and so many...
Teaching My Team How to Build LINQ from Scratch
Dev.to · Renan Martins 🧒 Coding for Kids 8mo ago
Teaching My Team How to Build LINQ from Scratch
After weeks exploring IEnumerable, yield return, and xUnit, we’ve reached the final step of our...
Your first django PR - from scratch to improved patch
Dev.to · Annabelle Wiegart 🧒 Coding for Kids 8mo ago
Your first django PR - from scratch to improved patch
A complete walkthrough You are ready to contribute code to Django, but you feel...
If We Rewrote SpringBoot from Scratch, What Different Choices Would We Make?
Dev.to · canonical 🧒 Coding for Kids 8mo ago
If We Rewrote SpringBoot from Scratch, What Different Choices Would We Make?
SpringBoot is a major leap forward built on the Spring framework. It introduced the concept of...
Building Mutualockss: How I Created a Shared Digital Security App from Scratch | Sayanth V Sivadas
Dev.to · Sayanth V Sivadas 🧒 Coding for Kids 8mo ago
Building Mutualockss: How I Created a Shared Digital Security App from Scratch | Sayanth V Sivadas
As someone new to the world of app development, my main goal has been to learn by building. I would...
AI's Microscopic Eye: Seeing the Unseen in Manufacturing
Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🧒 Coding for Kids 8mo ago
AI's Microscopic Eye: Seeing the Unseen in Manufacturing
AI's Microscopic Eye: Seeing the Unseen in Manufacturing Imagine a microscopic scratch,...
Mastering GitHub from Scratch - Beginner's Guide #1: Introduction to GitHub and Account Creation
Dev.to · YonYonWare 🧒 Coding for Kids 8mo ago
Mastering GitHub from Scratch - Beginner's Guide #1: Introduction to GitHub and Account Creation
Learning Objectives By the end of this chapter, you'll be able to: ✅ Understand and...