Tekkie Uni

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Hi has anyone had any experience with this at all ? I’m interested for my 7/nearly 8 year old and my 10 year old. Like the idea of taught classes but thought I would ask on here before I do the trial lesson.

Thanks !

Just taken a quick look at the course material... As a degree-educated engineer I would say this is a very wholesome introduction to what can eventually become a very complex and challenging subject. I like the project-based approach, that helped me a lot learning things like this, however there really should be some motivating statement, a problem, behind every project.

I am a little skeptical of their use of scratch however, as this language is mainly "graphical", so as to speak. It will help them understand the principals, but might not necessarily be what they want. If they want to create some simple games and stuff, scratch will be the best bet. If they want to make systems that solve real-world (or as real-world as a kid gets) problems, a better bet would be to get something like an Arduino kit. don't use Arduino's own IDE though, something like visual studio code with the Arduino headers is much better.

With the Arduino, and the guides that come with it, they will get a very good elementary working knowledge of C, and the great thing about it is that you can carry on using it long past the early stages, into some mildly complicated assembly language if they get interested.

Hi there, I was just poking around looking for real reviews of Tekkie Uni and came across this thread - did you end up enrolling your kids and, if so, how did it go? (And if not, did you find a better alternative?) Thanks! kath