The Best Block-Based Coding Tools for Beginners

The benefits around teaching kids to code have gained more and more momentum — making the market for apps and sites offering computer science curriculum and activities crowded. Thankfully, there are low-barrier, low-cost tools that have cross-curricular appeal and lots of support for educators (or caregivers!). They have this in common: They introduce computational thinking, and they all have block-based elements that allow kids to code without knowing a programming language.