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What is the CogAT Test? The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) measures the level and pattern of cognitive development of a student compared to age mates and grade mates. The CogAT …
It is well proven now that block-based coding courses for kids is an effective and popular method for introducing programming concepts. With its user-friendly interface and visual components, block-based coding …
Children can benefit hugely from learning how to code and we saw plenty of examples of that in our previous blogs. In line with that, UnicMinds has launched free coding …
In this post, we’ll see the steps required to create a two player Maze Runner game in Scratch. The simple goal of this game is that the players help the …
More than 95% of the Internet you use anywhere in the world travels through the tiny optical fibers connected via. Land (and therefore Sea). Contrary to your beliefs, only a …
Ethical Hacking for Juniors Tweens and Teenagers often wonder how computers in a network are all related and how the data travels from my mail to my friend’s mailbox over …
There is a deep relationship between prime numbers and public key encryption using RSA algorithm. In this post, we will understand why prime numbers are important for encryption. We will …
Coding is not just for kids who are interested in technology and computer-science. By engaging in giving logical instructions to computers, kids are developing problem-solving skills and computational thinking. At …
In this post, we will show you how to code a simple basketball game in Scratch. The code for this can be found here. If you want to learn to …
Young Coders program provides kids with basic logic-building, creative outlet, and foundation mathematics. It might come as a surprise that children are coding as early as 5 years of age. …
As we head into the summer in the United States in two months, families and children look out for some time away from schoolwork and to some vacation. In India, …
A new technological development by Tel Aviv University has made it possible for a robot to smell using a biological sensor. The sensor sends electrical signals as a response to …
Scratch is a simple and great GUI-based platform invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT for children to learn coding while building games and apps. It is a great …
3D printing was a fancy term in 2013, and I first overheard that IIT Bombay Computer Science Department is getting one of the first 3D printers in India. And I …
In this article, we shall understand how encryption and decryption work using public/private keys. Working of Encryption & Decryption An old school example to understand public key and private key …
Critical thinking is the suspension of judgement while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions. Critical thinking is among the most important causes of change in …
This article is originally published in The Conversation here. Do you struggle to visualise how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box? How are …
If you’re coding games in Unity, then it is a good idea to visit the Unity Asset Store. Unity Assets are high quality game assets – sprites, animations, and 3D …
Let’s start with an example that demonstrates what artificial intelligence (AI) is for kids. If you ask kids how many elephants are in the above image, then most of the …
Coding for kids, tweens, and students is an absolute essential today. And, I am not saying that because we teach coding! Let’s understand why it is an absolute essential in …
Coding and Algorithms is essentially about telling a computer what to do. Like most skills in life, programming involves: So, what is really important for anyone learning programming is not …
Tutoring has always been a prevalent support system for children in countries like India. In the last few years, online tutoring has gained a lot of popularity and effectiveness across …
This post walks us through the major benefits of gifted and talented education programs offered in schools.
To explain operating systems for kids, an operating system is a set of programs that enable other regular programs (like a browser, spreadsheet, gaming software, etc.) to use the computer …
Minecraft is a game with simple graphics and a blocky appearance. In the world of Minecraft coding for kids, you use different 1×1 types of blocks to make everything from …
In the Part 1 of this article, we learnt that devices connect with each other using different wired ports. Each of these ports are either serial or parallel in communications. …
Roblox coding for kids refers to the process of kids writing code and developing interactive games with multiple characters, objects and graphics using the Roblox Studio Editor. Roblox is essentially …
There is no doubt that developing leisure reading in children opens doors for real individual development. Reading skills for children opens new avenues to learn about various domains, develop imagination …
The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) measures the level and pattern of cognitive development of a student compared to age mates and grade mates. The CogAT is a nationally standardised test …
Coding As A Playground is a book on how young children can build cognitive and social emotional skills by engaging in learning computer programming and computational thinking. The book is …
We take a USB drive, plug it in our computer or TV, and voila! We transfer the files or play from the drive. So, how is it that computers or …
The above image of this post was made by me using an artificial intelligence software, Deep Dream Generator. Deep Dream is a neural network based computer program written by a …
Computers use binary code to communicate all information, and we have a fun way to teach binary code to kids. Binary code is a stream of 1’s and 0’s. A …
Computer Science has literally changed the world forever in the last 30 years. And coding for kids has actually become as essential as mathematics for kids in today’s world. It …
We’re introducing a fun course to initiate kids to coding/programming and at the same time to let the children have an exciting and fun learning experience about space physics that …
Computer Science is a beautiful subject that has many areas of knowledge that a child will start to learn, and it has mathematics well intertwined in it. Introducing various coding …
Mathematics can be found everywhere and it is deeply ingrained into everything around us. But, it is not easy to know the beauty of this subject. It is very much …
IOI is an International Olympiad Competition in Informatics (Computer Science). Each country sends 4 participants to this international competition with 1 or 2 participants as reserves. Each country has their …
If your child is starting coding, then should your child start with Scratch or Python (block-based) or JavaScript (block-based)?
When we write a program in any language, we declare a lot of variables, arrays, objects in various sections of the program such as the main function, global section, classes, …