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The generation now is growing up in an era where technology is everywhere. Other than in the 20th Century when having a phone was considered a luxury, today, almost everyone has a mobile device since the costs of purchasing one have greatly reduced. The advent of easy access technological devices has proven that programming in the 21st century is a skill generation now should be taught to be able to adapt to the times.
Coding on a smartphone can be done on Applications available on Google Play or the Apple Store. However, not all mobile devices have the right ergonomics that can be able to support learning code using the phone or tablet. Though, there are tutorials that can be installed to assist in learning code.
Examples of Coding App Tutorials for Mobile Devices https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomaslaurinavicius/2016/01/28/learn-design-and-coding/#6d25c91062b8
Swifty – Learn how to code in Swift wherever you are. Swifty offers over 200 bite-sized, hands-on tutorials to get you started with coding. It’s fun, easy, and entertaining. Available for free on iOS devices.
Time To Code – A free, comprehensive series of bite-sized tutorials for anyone who wants to learn to code on the iPhone & iPad. Learn HTML, CSS, & Javascript with a mobile code editor.
Examples of Coding HTML on Android Devices http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-4-html-editors-for-android-si/
WebMaster’s HTML Editor Lite is a source code editor that supports JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and HTML files.
It doesn’t offer many extra features, but it does the basics extremely well. They include syntax highlighting, line numbering, specialist on-screen coding buttons, and a built-in file explorer. It also provides FTP server support.
Available for free
AWD, short for “Android Web Developer”, is an integrated development environment for web developers.
The app supports the PHP, CSS, JS, HTML, and JSON languages, and you can manage and collaborate on remote projects using FTP, FTPS, SFTP, and WebDAV.
It offers several features you might expect — such as code highlighting, code completion, line numbering, and previews — but it also includes some cool features that earn the app its place on this list. They include a search and replace function (which includes regular expressions), error checking, and perhaps most enticingly, automatic one-click code beautification.
Available for free
Currently, the best way to teach children how to code is through a computer. Thereafter, transition into being able to code on a phone by changing certain phone specifics or using apps as stated above.
Our Coding Club offers children as early as 6 years old to learn how to code. At this age, their motor skills in brain development are very adaptive to learning new things every so often. We also offer several coding languages which the children can explore with.
