What is Tynker?
Tynker is an educational programming platform used to teach children coding skills and concepts through game creation, visual programming, and interactive courses. It uses a intuitive, block-based interface that allows kids to drag and drop blocks of code to create games, apps, mods, and more without needing to learn syntax.
Key features of Tynker include:
- Hundreds of self-paced coding courses and tutorials spanning beginner to advanced levels
- A visual coding workspace for creating games and apps using pre-made blocks of JavaScript, Python, and other code snippets
- A massive library of sprites, backgrounds, and other assets to choose from
- Tools to program drones, robotics kits, and other interactive smart toys
- A vibrant student community with a sharing platform to showcase projects
- Special curriculum-aligned courses meeting computer science education standards
- Teacher tools and lesson plans for coding instruction
- Parental oversight features to track progress
Tynker aims to make programming fun, creative, and accessible for kids in elementary school through high school. With its structured guidance and engaging project-based learning, it helps teach critical thinking, problem solving, design skills, and computational thinking.