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Logiscool: A fun way to teach programming to kids
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“I’m going to start my own business and make a living from programming” said a 9-year-old student in Logiscool, a special place, where more than 6000 kids have tried programming in a playful way. According to szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu, what they like the most is that they can tell their classmates that they have created their own computer games.
Logiscool teaches programming to 6-18 year old children, youngsters in groups of 6-12. Many people think that programming is only for geeks, because you only see weird characters on a black screen and you have to understand mathematics. This is exactly the stereotype and the reason why Logiscool built a brand called “experience-based programming school”. All of their pupils get the chance to programme their own computer games, which is quite a witty way of making learning fun.
The fifth grader Tamás says that in Logiscool he learns things that will be indispensable in the future. “Nothing feels better than hearing kids happily tell each other that they have their own games. Is there anything cooler than this?” asks founder Anita Breuer, and adds that they have thought more than 6000 kids in two and a half years.
“This is great because children can learn to think logically. The logical, algorithmic thinking can be one of the secrets of a successful life.” It seems like many parents agree with her as they now have 25 schools and are planning on spreading further.
“This is all about having a certain problem, which they divide into parts and solve it thereafter. Our life works similarly. We don’t only train programmers, obviously not everyone will end up being a programmer. But the knowledge we give them can be used in several fields of life, not to mention that, when these kids enter the labour market, this knowledge will be as basic as speaking foreign languages these days.”
Kids are divided into four age groups, so that everyone can take part in the course suitable for their knowledge. The smallest ones, who can’t even write, start with a basic course, where they get to know the computer, since Logiscool noticed that a generation is growing up which finds the mouse and the keyboard strange, because they are surrounded by smart gadgets. At the end of the courses teenagers have a basic programming knowledge, which is a marketable knowledge at the same time.
