According to PageGroup’s Peru 2023 Remuneration Study, the demand for ICT profiles has been increasing at an annual rate of 15% in the country. And it is that training in digital skills is essential not only for children and adolescents to have profiles more in line with the needs of the labor market, but also for them to develop skills such as planning, empathy, creativity and computational thinking, among others, to help them in their process of personal growth.
“We are entering the summer holidays and more and more parents are choosing to enroll their children in online video game creation workshops with code and digital illustration during those dates. This also goes hand in hand with the increased interest that children and adolescents have in programming issues”commented María del Mar Vélez, founder and CEO of Crack the Code.
For this reason, the CEO of Crack the Code offers some workshops that are ideal for your children according to their age.
- 5 to 7 years: If you are looking for your little one or little girl to take their first steps in programming, you need to get a workshop that does not require prior knowledge. The course to be considered should use simple methods and very friendly learning platforms so that you can program in an easy and friendly way.
It is important that the workshop is one of video game programming by blocks: without code manipulation, since they will allow you to have a more didactic experience in the process without requiring very technical knowledge. For example, Crack The Code has a course, called “Creating my first video games”, in which students can create an adventure game and another one with a Pokémon theme, thus improving their technological and soft skills and their comprehensive learning. .
- From 8 to 11 years: At this age and so that your child can develop technological skills for the future, you have to look for a workshop that allows him to program a video game with another as a reference, such as “Creating your own Fall Guys” by Crack the Code. Other alternatives for more artistic profiles, according to the specialist, are manga illustration workshops on digital devices, through the use of programs such as Medigang and Adobe Illustrator.
“At the age of 9 to 11, there are already children interested in developing games from scratch and with code, using languages like Python and JavaScript through programs like Mu Editor and Replit. With them they can create images, animations, sounds and more. It is important that the workshop to be considered is one with a simple methodology and constant support throughout the process”, says Vélez.
- From 12 to 18 years old: If you have a teenage son or daughter, the ideal workshop will be a more advanced one in which they can not only create online video games with waiting rooms, public and private games, among other elements, but also enhance their ICT profile. At the end of the course, your adolescent son or daughter should be able to master basic concepts and programming language, as well as be able to bring all their creativity to the digital realm. A good option is the programming course “Creating Video Games with Code” from Crack the Code, which has 8 sessions and will make your child learn in a playful way.
“We were born from the lack of a programming approach in schools and we seek to generate opportunities through code, programming and technology for children and young people in Latin America. We have already had an impact on more than 14,000 students in around 22 countries around the world. We want our coders to learn while having fun and that is why we created a playful experience specially designed for the ages of the students”, concluded the CEO of Crack the Code.
The programming workshops offered by Crack the Code are aimed at children from the age of 5 to young people of 18 years of age. Choose the ideal for your child and enroll him by entering https://www.crackthecode.la/.
