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How to Keep Kids Motivated for Coding as School Resumes

Published on August 17, 2023

As another summertime wraps up and September approaches, parents everywhere switch gears. The summer months sped by, and somehow, it’s already time for Back to School. Parents wonder where the time went, and kids are no different. Ask the average child if they’d rather play games in summer or be stuck in a classroom learning, […]

Front-end vs Back-end Development: Understanding the Differences

Published on August 2, 2023

To non-programmers, it may seem like there is one single thing called “coding” that people do to power their favourite apps, websites, and video games. When you start to look a little closer, major differences appear. The digital world relies on front- and back-end development, but there are some coding terms you should know, as […]

Teaching Kids Cyber-Smarts: Coding and Online Safety’s Relationship

Published on July 19, 2023

Parents teach kids early on to look both ways before crossing and look out for cars because knowing how to navigate the risks of the world around them keeps them safe. People must be able to get around, but we need to know the safe and proper way to do it. How do parents ready […]

RP4K Teacher Profiles: Quinlan Sokol

Published on July 12, 2023

We have a special entry this month in our ongoing teacher profile series. Today, we’re looking at the creator of our Advanced Math and Physics for Coders course, Quinlan Sokol. RP4K is proud to teach kids how to write computer code in industry-standard languages. We prioritize kids having fun above all but do emphasize foundational […]

RP4K Teacher Profiles: Eduardo Soto

Published on June 26, 2023

Real Programming 4 Kids is continuing our instructor profile series to shine a light on another gifted computer programmer we’re lucky to have, Eduardo Soto. Eduardo is a full-time programmer and software engineer working with the federal government who also teaches for RP4K and has since 2019. Eduardo builds custom CRM solutions to automate processes […]

Most Popular Programming Languages for Game Development

Published on June 12, 2023

When parents think of video games, they might think of grainy computer games that seemed miraculous because kids could play them at home rather than in the arcade. True, parents today didn’t grow up pumping quarters into pinball machines, but video games have come a long way in just the past few years. Today, the […]

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