codeSpark - Coding for Kids

codeSpark

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About this game

codeSpark Academy is the best learn-to-code app for kids ages 5-10. With 100’s of code games, activities, & kids learning games designed to teach the fundamentals of computer science. Introduce them to the world of coding for kids & STEM.

The LEGO Foundation - Pioneer RE-Imagining Learning & Re-Defining Play
Children’s Technology Review - Editor’s Choice Award
Parent’s Choice Award - Gold Medal
American Association of School Librarians - Best App for Teaching & Learning

LEARNING GAMES FOR KIDS:
Kids Learning Games, Puzzles & code games
Educational games for kids: Play coding games & build problem-solving & logical-thinking skills with educational games for kids. Programming games help children learn coding, master sequencing, loops, events & conditionals. Coding for kids is fun with codeSpark’s learning games for kids!

Explore
CodeSpark helps kids learn programming. Unlike other code learning apps for kids, we apply & expand coding knowledge with coding games for kids, logical thinking challenges & educational games for kids. Our programming games teach boolean logic, automation, variables & inequalities, stacks & queues to help you learn coding.

Story Maker
More than just educational games for kids: our app for kids to learn coding teaches children to create interactive stories with speech bubbles, drawings & music.

Game Maker
Learn coding for kids through programming games & apply concepts from codeSpark’s educational game for kids to code your own games. See how other games were coded & put your own spin on them.

Adventure Game
Combine storytelling & coding game design to create unique games & stories for other coders to play. Learn with coding games for kids & use advanced concepts to make trees move, build fortresses & more.

Kid-Safe Community
Every story is moderated before it’s published to ensure the safety & privacy of all kid coders. Kids can play programming games knowing they’re safe at every step.


FEATURES:

* Kid-Safe
* Learn programming concepts through coding games for kids & use them to code their own games & interactive stories
* Personalized daily activities & coding games
* Subscription app with new coding for kids content every month so your child continues to learn to code
* Word-free coding games & learning games for kids. Perfect for beginner coders & pre-readers! Anyone, anywhere can learn programming & start coding!
* Research backed curriculum
* Up to 3 individual child profiles so each child can learn to code games at their own pace
* No collection of child’s private data
* No advertising or micro-transactions
* No written communication between players or external parties
* Cancel at any time


EDUCATIONAL CONTENT:

codeSpark Academy’s patented word-free interfaces allows anyone to play & are perfect for beginner coders & pre-readers to learn to code.

Kids master core computer science concepts like pattern recognition, problem solving, sequencing, algorithmic thinking, debugging, loops & conditionals in the learning apps for kids.

DOWNLOAD & SUBSCRIPTION:

* Payment will be charged to Play Store Account
* Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
* Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period
* Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
* Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication where applicable

Privacy Policy: https://codespark.com/privacy

Terms of Use: https://codespark.com/terms

Ratings and reviews

Update: after several days, I was contacted and the bug was fixed. My child loves the app. It's educational, challenging, and fun. So I decided to purchase a year subscription. Well, I've been charged, but their app will not process the code I bought off of their website. I emailed them multiple times, different days for a week. I still can't get in and I paid for it! Very poor customer and IT service. I recommend the free trail and nothing else.

Free trial has a trap that you have to remember to cancel before the end of the trial or you automatically get charged $79. I'm sorry but that is a shady way of doing a free trial especially when it costs so much for an app. Vendor reply misses the point of the complaint. It isn't the cost that is at issue. What is at issue is the way the free trial is implemented. You have to remember to cancel before the end of free trial if you don't like/use the app. This is good for their revenue but bad for consumers. Free trials should simply stop the app from working at the end of the trial until the individual elects to pay the subscription fee. The one star review remains for this reason. The way the free trial is implemented is bad for consumers and is shady. I was also irked that the way the free trial actually works didn't reveal itself until the app appears to be ready for the child to use and it is handed over to the child. At that point the child enters a numeric code presented to them and suddenly a google pay screen appears. This means the child is excited to try the app and the parent is left with a choice of disappointing the child or handing over Google Pay approval in hopes of being able to cancel the subscription if the app isn't to their kid's liking. That seems intentionally manipulative. If the app is so good do a clean free trial with no tricks. At the end of the seven days present a choice for the parent to pay the subscription.

As a teacher, this app is great to use in class. You can create a free account and download easy-to-use lessons that help children learn the differences between stacking, queueing, looping, sequencing and more. You can prevent kids from playing more than an hour and limit which skills they are learning in each lesson but "opening" or "closing" different games. It uses real technology words and for EAL learners is perfect as there is not need for traditional reading in English. Love it!

What's new

codeSpark has created some of kid coders' most wished-for items. Paired with the ability to Undo and Redo in StoryCoder and an expansion of blocks throughout creative modes, there are infinite possibilities for new games and stories!