Listen to this articleA kid’s coding academy is a website (and an offline institution if you wish) where young people learn how to become computer programmers. As an academy, you create learning tools that kids can take on and try. They can try your content with their parents or alone. By the end of the course or series of lessons, they should have a set of skills and some knowledge about coding in a certain language.
What Are You Teaching?
Try to stay away from Visual Basic. There is this misconception that it is somehow easier for younger people. This may have been true in caveman times, but these days, HTML is easier than VB. Plus, you are not really teaching kids an employable skill if you teach them VB. Consider which languages and skills you are going to teach, with a mind to what your students will hope to achieve. Are they looking to make iPhone apps, or looking to re-skin their weapons in Roblox games?
Kid, Kids and Teachers, or Kids and Parents?
Your target audience isn’t just kids. It is true that you can create courses and tools just for kids, but they are not your only target audience. Sometimes, the targets are the kids and teachers, which means you need to make your academy suitable for both while selling to the teachers. Similarly, for kids and parents, you need to make the content work for both users, but you need to be selling to the parents.
Why is Starting a Kids Coding Academy Important
Take a look at modern coding lessons. There is a wide variety, and each teaches in its own way. Now, try your kids on a few of them. After perhaps trying eight, you will find one that resonates with your kids.
When it comes to coding, the best explanation for starting your own academy is that there is a demand for more. Kids need a wide variety of lesson types so they can explore each one and find the types of lessons that suit them.
A large number of kids that try your coding lessons are going to lose interest or not understand. This is normal and expected. Your customer base will be the kids who resonate with your content. The kids who don’t understand other people’s lessons, for some reason can work with yours.
How Do You Create Content That Resonates
The specifics of how you create your content is up to you, but the last thing you should do is copy the other teachers, lessons, courses and games you find online. As mentioned in the last section, your content will resonate with a certain slice of your customer base.
Ideally, you should create content that would teach you the best. Make content that works for your type of thinking. This is part of the charm and meaning of making your own course. There are kids out there with your type of mindset, and they cannot find a coding course that suits the way they think. Create something that would work for you, and you will appeal to all the kids out there who have a similar way of thinking to you.
A Custom-Designed Website
It goes without saying that you are going to need a custom-made website. It needs to be able to sell to new users and then accommodate users with accounts. If your academy is built for kids and adults, then you will need a section for kids, teachers and/or parents.
Your custom website will also need a way to contain its various tools and the various games you wish to add. There are probably features needed too, such as teaching and testing features, and you will need ways for people to save their work, scores, notes and content so that they can return for more sessions and carry on where they left off.
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