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K-8 Curriculum
CodeMonkey offers educational resources for students of different grades and experience levels. From CodeMonkey Jr. to Banana Tales, students learn coding basics such as block-based and text-based coding. Kids also learn how to code in real programming languages like CoffeeScript and Python. Through CodeMonkey, kids will develop the necessary skills for the future while having fun!
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CodeMonkey is a fun and educational game-based environment where kids learn to code without any prior experience. After completing CodeMonkey's award-winning coding courses, kids will be able to navigate through the programming world with a sense of confidence and accomplishment.
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READY TO GO COURSES
With CodeMonkey’s teacher kit and support team, anyone can teach the basics of computer science
real coding languages
CodeMonkey's courses teach text-based coding so students learn to program like a real developer
game-based learning
Kids learn coding in an engaging and rewarding environment that utilizes gaming elements
Apps and web-based courses
What sets CodeMonkey apart is its unique approach to teaching children programming right from day one, in an engaging, gamified manner. We believe that learning should be fun, and that's exactly what we've been doing for the past decade.
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Once they start, students won’t want to stop solving coding challenges.
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A fun & gamified educational platform that attracts children worldwide.
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With an intuitive interface and easy roll-out, educators feel empowered.
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Classroom management
Equipped with student solutions, automatic grading and curriculum management, CodeMonkey’s Classroom Dashboard allows you to effortlessly manage your students. Fully-detailed coding lessons will help you more easily conduct your classes through engaging activities as well as a distinctive mode for teaching versus playing.
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Standards alignment
CodeMonkey places a high emphasis on content that aligns to today’s standards. With online challenges and unplugged activities, students not only develop coding skills, but also computational thinking, collaboration, reasoning and logic.
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CodeMonkey is an award-winning, fun and intuitive curriculum where students learn to code in real programming languages. Courses navigate from using block-based coding into more advanced coding languages such as Python. Through game and project-based courses, students as young as 7 solve puzzles and build games and apps. The majority of CodeMonkey’s courses do not require prior coding experience to teach. It’s easy and fun! All courses are designed for school, extra-curricular and home-use.
CodeMonkey is a great learning tool for all ages! The courses offer a full curriculum for grades K-8.
Introducing code at an early age is recommended. Anyone can learn to code and learning can be fun.
Trial subscriptions are a great introduction into CodeMonkey and some of the basic coding concepts covered throughout the platform.
Included in Home and Teacher trials:
Coding Adventure Part 1 : Through Challenge 30
CodeMonkey Jr.: Sequencing & Loops
Banana Tales Part 1 Python: Through Challenge 30
All of CodeMonkey Hour of Code Content
CodeMonkey covers text-based coding languages of CoffeeScript and Python .
The programming language used in Coding Adventure is called CoffeeScript. This programming language, similar to JavaScript, is used in the industry primarily for web applications. CodeMonkey chose this language for a few reasons, but mainly because of its friendly syntax. It closely resembles English, compared to other programming languages.
Coding Chatbots and Banana Tales use the programming language of Python, a widely used language that has easy syntax. Python is a general-purpose, versatile and popular programming language. Students learning Python, become one step closer to becoming real-world programmers in a high-tech world!
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CodeMonkey teaches how to code in CoffeeScript. This is a great beginning coding language for children ages 6-12 years of age. Courses like CodeMonkey Jr. for the youngest learners use blocks to help build visual learning skills for future more complicated programming techniques. Coding Adventure teaches 7-16 years olds code while catching bananas using more advanced text-based coding. All this while having fun!
Python is an easy-to-learn text-based programming language. There are libraries of ready-made code, English-like syntax, and is a widely used choice for many developers. The main coding concepts used are variables, data, input and output, boolean operators, class, etc. Banana Tales is a CodeMonkey course that uses Python as its coding language. Teach your child or student python and start with a free trial!
Teaching computer science in middle school can have it’s challenges. We want students to have a positive experience no matter what their interest level may be. There are many different tools and courses available, but holding a young student’s interest, while teaching code, can be difficult. A fun game-oriented course, which makes learning challenging and fun, are just what a student needs.