{"id":53712,"date":"2024-10-07T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inovex.de\/?p=53712"},"modified":"2025-09-17T07:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:36:19","slug":"when-and-how-to-start-coding-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inovex.de\/de\/blog\/when-and-how-to-start-coding-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"When and How to Start Coding With Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are a parent yourself, an expecting parent, a grandparent, godparent, teacher or just a friend of children, this blog post will leave you with enough knowledge to understand **when** and **how** to start coding with children. I hope you enjoy learning about this as much as I did!<\/p>\n

Coding with children is a topic close to my heart. This has four main reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. I did not have any coding opportunities growing up. My family had nothing to do with coding, neither did my friends. Also, we did not have computer science or coding classes at school. I would very much like this to be different for other children, including my own.<\/li>\n
  2. I love learning and teaching! You might have seen that from my GitHub projects or my voluntary work at the German initiative \u201cKI macht Schule\u201c<\/a> where we teach AI to kids in German schools.<\/li>\n
  3. I have always been fascinated by how the brain works. That’s why I studied cognitive science in my undergraduate degree. The human brain is at the center of all our cognitive abilities, including learning. Therefore, we must understand how it functions and develops to understand how to improve learning and how to teach coding to children.<\/li>\n
  4. I love kids! I have spend a lot of time with children: after school working as an Au-Pair in London, professionally working at kids events and \u201cKI macht Schule\u201c<\/a> and at home with my own children.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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