Teach Coding to kids : Awareness Program

Download and install the course software by following the steps for Windows or Linux; unzip the downloaded file and run the installer to start the course.

Install the software by downloading the mini block software, then click the icon to start installation, with the program installing in the C drive.

Explore course software, choose minisub for Millicent, and build robot programs by dragging instructions into the main programming area, using forward/backward and left/right rotations with signs and a color sensor.

Learn to move the robot forward and backward using the instruction panel and hash values; apply the number line concept to positive and negative x-axis movements, then run 200-unit commands.

Learn to rotate a robot by selecting rotation instructions, choosing non-negative or negative angles for left or right turns (90 or 180 degrees), and running the program to view results.

Learn a beginner coding activity that moves a robot forward, makes a turn, and draws a line using pencil down and pencil up commands, creating a 200‑unit line.

Teach coding to kids awareness program demonstrates drawing with colored pencils, changing line color and thickness, selecting a pencil, and inserting steps to vary color from red to blue.

Learn to draw two lines at acute or obtuse angles by rotating the robot using exterior angles on a horizontal path, mastering angle construction.

Learn to program a robot to draw a square by moving forward 200 units and turning 90 degrees four times, using color, line thickness, and pencil controls.

Program a robot to draw a rectangle by adjusting length and width from a square, keeping interior angles at 90 degrees, and run the revised sequence to see the rectangle.

Discover how a repeat loop shortens long programs by repeating a set of steps four times, such as moving forward and turning, to guide a robot into a square.

Students learn to display a completion message and a smiley by sending data to the terminal window, showing 'I have drawn the square' after drawing.

Students learn to insert a time gap between robot actions, using milliseconds to pause after each step while drawing a square, enabling clear observation of operations.

Learn to draw polygons, starting with hexagons, by programming 60-degree side rotations to complete a 360-degree turn, and explore how changing side length forms circles.

Learn to program a robot that runs forever, moving in squares, using a forever loop shown as a while loop in C and C++.

Empower kids to count and print robot lines by defining a count variable, initializing it to zero, and incrementing it as the robot draws each line, displaying the line number.

Progress from blog based programming to text based programming, building 3D design and printing, programming electronic chips and Arduino robots, exploring Scratch animations and games, and finally crash to Python.