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| CargoBot | Hakitzu Elite: Robot Hackers | My Robot Friend |
| Cato’s Hike | Hopscotch | Robo Logic and Robo Logic 2 |
| Codequest: Website Adventures | Kodable | Run Macro! |
| Daisy the dinasaur | Lightbot and Lightbot Jr. | Codea |
| Dynamic Art | Machineers | Gamepress |
| The Foos | Move The Turtle | Tinytap |
Cargo-Bot iOS Ages 6+
Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates. Sounds simple, right? It features 36 fiendishly clever puzzles, haunting music and stunning retina graphics. You can even record your solutions and share them on YouTube to show your friends. While no specific coding is required, the app’s goal is to have users think like a computer.
Cato’s Hike iOS
Cato is a little boy who just like every little boy likes to go out and play. One fine day Cato was playing outside when a portal to another world opened up in front of him; a portal to another world!
Cato stepped through and discovered that this world unlike his own didn’t follow the same rules. Every time he tried to take a step or an action he’d find himself stuck in place. Stuck that is until he finally discovered the rules in this universe: by writing a program for himself he would be able to overcome all obstacles and learn something new along the way!
Codequest: Website Adventures iOS Ages 6+
This iPad App allows children to build their first website with real HTML & CSS. Joining a magical journey through the world wide web, kids can test & hone their coding skills! Publish it when they are done!
Daisy the Dinosaur daisy
Learn the basics of computer programming with Daisy the Dinosaur! This free, fun app has an easy drag and drop interface that kids of all ages can use to animate Daisy to dance across the screen. Kids will intuitively grasp the basics of objects, sequencing, loops and events by solving this app’s challenges.
Dynamic Art iOS Ages 8+
Dynamic ART is a graphical programming environment on iPad. It’s easy to create amazing artwork, animations, interactions and music with Dynamic ART. You can also share your creations with your friends. You needn’t study complex syntax of computer languages. You just drag and drop a set of blocks and connect them together. It will be a fun way to build your own programs. It can be used for Kids and beginners to learn and practice mathematical, computational ideas and creative thinking.
The Foos iOS, Android, Kindle, online. Ages 5+
Get your child excited about the ABC’s of computer science with our award-winning problem solving game. We’ve teamed up with top university professors to make programming incredibly fun and easy.
Hakitzu Elite: Robot Hackers iOS and Android. Ages 8+
Giant robots and JavaScript are your weapons of choice as you program your way to victory in this strategic combat game. No previous coding knowledge is required to crack the code as the game guides you from a beginner, to coder, to hacker. Let the battle commence!
Hopscotch iOS Ages 7+
Hopscotch is programming designed for everyone! In a few minutes, you’ll be making characters move, dance, draw, and interact. Control your project by tapping, tilting, shaking, and even shouting at your iPad. Our easy-to-follow videos help you make awesome games like “Food Fight Dodgeball” and “Fire Bunny”. The possibilities are endless.
Kodable (To download by OS, click on following links) iOS, Android Ages 5+
This award winning game and accompanying curriculum, is designed to teach the basics of computer coding to kids 5 and up. The furry aliens, known as Fuzzes were exploring space when their ship unexpectedly crashed on the maze-covered planet Smeeborg. The naturally curious fuzzes need kids to program them to explore all the colorful Technomazes on the planet’s surface.
Lightbot and Lightbot Jr. iOS, Android, Kindle and Software for Lightbot. Ages 4-7 for Lightbot Jr. and 8+ for Lightbot.
Get kids hooked on programming within minutes! Lightbot is a programming puzzle game: a puzzle game that uses game mechanics that are firmly rooted in programming concepts.
Lightbot lets players gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts like procedures, loops, and conditionals, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels.
Lightbot Reviews
Lightbot Jr. Reviews
Machineers iOS, Android, Software
Machineers is a construction puzzle game with quirky robots and wonderful machines. It is your job to repair broken contraptions and build your own mechanical inventions with your toolbox full of gears, belts, cables and plenty of other parts.
Help out the town folks by repairing their machines: the DJ machine, a coin-operated crane, and a mechanical arcade machine, and many more. After mastering the skills of a true Machineer, get ready for your next challenge: build yourself a vehicle and drive it to River City!
Move the Turtle iOS Ages 5+
Do you remember Logo programming language? A friendly Turtle will introduce your child step by step to the basic concepts of programming in the graphic environment. Who knows, maybe your child will be the next outstanding programmer!
My Robot Friend iOS
Take control of your robot friend, Alpha-1, using logic, puzzle solving and math skills. Use your arsenal of shrink rays, invisibility cloaks, shields, propeller packs and a whole lot more as you program your way through 80 mind-teasing levels. Program a sequence of instructions for your robot to follow, and earn all 3 ribbons per level by creating efficient programs and collecting all the coins.
Robo Logic and Robo Logic 2 iOS Ages 6+
Robo Logic is a neat logic game. You have to “program” a robot’s movements by dragging commands to the memory of the bot. Your goal is to activate all the marked boxes. Very soon you will realize though that using only the main memory is not enough and you will have to start creating and calling re-usable functions to achieve the goal. Robo Logic is very easy to learn, but hard to master.
Run Macro! iOS, Android, Chrome, Kindle. Ages 6+
Teach kids computational thinking or just entertain them? Why choose? Run Marco! does both as kids learn through a playful process. All levels are validated by our global network of educators to ensure that besides having fun the game delivers significant learning value on using technology creatively and solving real problems.
Apps that allow kids to make apps.
Codea iOS Ages 8+
Codea for iPad lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the accelerometer.
We think Codea is the most beautiful code editor you’ll use, and it’s easy. Codea is designed to let you touch your code. Want to change a number? Just tap and drag it. How about a color, or an image? Tapping will bring up visual editors that let you choose exactly what you want.
Codea is built on the Lua programming language. A simple, elegant language that doesn’t rely too much on symbols — a perfect match for iPad.
GamePress iOS Ages 8+
GamePress allows you to create, share, and play mobile games right on your tablets. With GamePress you don’t need to know any programming, or have graphics design abilities.
TinyTap iOS, Android, Online. Ages 6+
TinyTap is a social platform which empowers families, teachers and students to learn from each other by creating their own personalized learning apps and playing thousands of new ones shared daily by a worldwide community of educators and learners worldwide. Together we are building the world’s largest marketplace for educational games – a community that celebrates creativity and knowledge!
What is The TinyTap Market?
We also believe that there is no better way to learn than by teaching – which is why we created the TinyTap Market. The TinyTap Market is an online community of millions of kids, teachers and parents that create and share their fun educational games everyday. And, your games can be published as real apps on the TinyTap Market, AppStore, Google Play and the Web!
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