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Code for Life now offers families a free fun way of teaching coding and programming at home. No experience of coding is required.

Helping solve a new problem
Conflicting demands on families in lockdown mean that developing young people’s digital skills could fall between the cracks. We’re offering a solution that helps kids to begin, or keep learning coding, that anyone, including people with no coding experience, will find easy to deliver at home.

We’ve opened up Rapid Router – our free education resources that teach children aged 6-13 coding and programming at home – to the wider community.

Over 18,500 teachers use Code for Life in classrooms across 133 countries. More than 12 million games have been played, showing just how engaging children find it. The global uptake demonstrates the ease and value Code For Life’s resources offer educators. And that’s why we knew families at home could easily make use of them, too.

Central to Rapid Router is an engaging game that helps families make screen time useful by increasing their child’s digital skills.

Children as young as six can play and start learning Blockly and Python programming languages.

The challenge of teaching programming
The onset of a global pandemic has forced schools until further notice. It is likely that many parents and caregivers are not familiar enough with computer science to feel confident in delivering coding lessons at home.

These parents aren’t alone, as recently as 2017, over 70% of teachers still felt they didn’t have the skills to teach computer programming.

This is why we launched Code for Life almost six years ago, as a free coding education resource for teachers – many of whom had no previous experience of coding and felt unprepared to deliver lessons in the subject.

Three principles guide everything we do with Code for Life;

it will be free, forever
Anyone will find it easy to learn and teach coding, even absolute beginners
It will allow technology to become accessible for everyone

Start teaching coding at home
Since the start of lockdown there have been over 9,000 new Rapid Router users. Getting started is very easy. Register as an Independent Student on the Code for Life website for free access to the Rapid Router game.

You’ll find all the lesson resources here for you to download and start playing.

I would like to finish by asking a small favour. Please share Code for Life’s free coding resources with anyone you think could find them useful. We really must #KeepKidsCoding.

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Keep kids coding