What is Pioneers?
Pioneers is an open-source creative coding platform designed for teaching children programming concepts and computational thinking skills. It features an intuitive, block-based interface that allows students to create games, simulations, animations and more without prior coding knowledge.
Some key features of Pioneers include:
- Beginner-friendly drag-and-drop interface for building programs visually
- Large library of easy-to-use coding blocks for movement, loops, variables and other core concepts
- Support for JavaScript programming once students are ready
- Collaborative coding environment to work together on projects in the classroom
- Teacher dashboard to manage student progress and provide customized learning paths
- Integrated with popular hardware like LEGO robots, micro:bit and more
- Available as a desktop application as well as a web-based app for any platform
By engaging students to create tangible, interactive projects, Pioneers aims to get children excited about coding while scaffolding computational skills in an applied, creative context. The open source platform has an active global community contributing resources and support for adoption in schools and coding clubs.