10 year old

10 year old children tend to be in the 4th or 5th grades.  Unfortunately very few elementary schools offer Computer Science classes at this time.  We have found that 10 year old children are the perfect age for our Panda Programmer classes! Our classes typically consist of 8 year old and 9 year old students.  Additionally 10 year old, 11 year old, and 12 year old students are perfect for our classes. At these ages, children are old enough to concentrate and learn. However they do not fear computers! After the children embark on creating simple customized animations, they move on to more complex tasks that involve control structures.  Python and Html/JavaScript are taught to advanced students.  Ultimately we give our students the tools they need to program their own custom games.  Also they create their own educational projects.

Research has shown that computer programming significantly helps children with brain development.  Specifically, computer programming can have positive effects on a range of cognitive abilities.  These abilities include reasoning skills (which blocks to use for the program?), logical thinking (what will be the effect of these changes to the program?), planning skills (will a particular change have the intended consequence for the program?), and general problem-solving skills (how to debug the program?).  The curriculum used by Panda Programmer has been developed and refined with these skills in mind.  

Furthermore, 10 year old students are beginning to consider possible careers.  Programming opens up many doors to many career paths involving engineering, medicine, research, and business.

10 year old
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