How to start programming?

While interacting with various parents and students in last 18months, we get following important questions.
• Is my child ready for coding / programming?
• Will she/he able to cope up with new coding language?
• How my child will practice and learn new coding concepts?
• How my child will remember new learnings forever?
• In case my child doesn’t want to pursue his/her career in technology in the future then how coding learning will be useful?

Each of the above questions are important from parents and students perspective. And they should have genuine answer before investing their time, effort and money to learn coding/programming.

Let me share my views on the above questions which’ll surely help you to take an appropriate decision.

Is my child ready for coding / programming?

Any kid who is above 6 years old can learn coding. Coding is like any other language where we first learn alphabets then we form words and finally we start writing and speaking the language. Software industry is ~60years old which has transformed whole world in last 2 decades. 10 years back we never thought to do following stuff online
• Do almost all financial transactions through Mobile/Net banking
• Buy movie/drama/event tickets
• Buy mobile / dress / grocery almost everything related to household
• Buy railway and airline tickets
• To get the access of global teachers with digital contents

Covid-19 has increased the importance of technology which has helped industries who were ready to work online.

With reference to your child’s age and his/her interest select an appropriate coding program. LearnQoch offers 4 levels of coding courses in three different categories like Dreamer – Creator – Achiever as follows
• Seed (Dreamer – Creator – Achiever) : Grade 1-4
• Germination (Dreamer – Creator – Achiever) : Grade 5-8
• Growth (Dreamer – Creator – Achiever) : Grade 9-12
• Ready For World for Undergrad and working professionals

Every child is unique hence LearnQoch test their current knowledge and interest. With reference to students’ current knowledge and interest we suggest specific course like Seed – Dreamer Or Seed – Creator Or Seed – Achiever for Grade 1–4 students.

Will she/he able to cope up with new coding language?

There are about 700 programming languages, including esoteric coding languages. Some sources that only list notable languages still count up to impressive 245 languages. Another list called HOPL, which claims to include every programming languages to ever exist, puts the total number of programming languages to 8945.

Does student required to learn all the languages? No, they can learn couple of languages and do wonders in their professional life. For an example, grade 1-4 students should learn block coding and basics of HTML so they start liking the coding as a language. Likewise teach advance languages like C/C++, Java, Python along with DevOps to undergrads so they become relevant to real professional world.

To cope up with new coding language, start with basics and increase the difficulties once students foundational concepts are strong. Otherwise they’ll create dislike for the subject. Student create interest for new subject if their concepts are clear.

How my child will practice and learn new coding concepts?

To thoroughly understand the concepts, it’s important to practice it. LearnQoch provides industry based curriculum for each topic. Also after every class, student is expected to complete the class assignment. Student gets the access of Learning Management System which becomes bridge between teacher and students to get the desire outcome.

As we know, it’s not possible to monitor, measure and analyse any activity manually. Hence LearnQoch provides Learning Management System (LMS Software) to address following major concerns of every parents
1. What my child has learned today?
2. How much he/she has understood?
3. If there is understanding gap, how it’s getting bridged?

Every child has got unique learning curve hence teacher is required to have personalised teaching to ensure desire learning. Through LMS software this can be done scientifically. LearnQoch LMS software provides all required support to every student to practice and learn new coding language.

How my child will remember new learnings forever?

This is a perennial issue which requires scientific solution. As a student we learn so many stuff on daily basis from different subjects. But at the time of exam, almost all the students get tensed to remember it perfectly. Similarly while learning coding, student is expected to remember specific syntax, tag and logic.

Periodic revision of learned concepts is the only solution to remember it for a long time. LearnQoch provide access of Learning Management System (LMS Software) through which every student will able to learn specific concept reading and video material to revise their learnings. Also they’ll able to review their past assessment performance which’ll help them to avoid repeating the past mistakes.

In case my child doesn’t want to pursue his/her career in technology in the future then how coding learning will be useful?

In the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) which is a fusion of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), genetic engineering, quantum computing, and many more, learning is constant endeavour.
Either our child wants to pursue their career in technology or not, they need to understand basic coding/programming concepts and its architect. So they’ll able to participate in specific customer problem solving conversations as a Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Finance, HR, Procurement and Legal professional. Every hardware in our surrounding is getting integrated with software hence it’s better to learn basics of software language. As a kid, giving them coding exposure will surely make their wings stronger to reach new heights.

In conclusion, students are expected to follow below steps to get the best outcome from coding learning
• Focus to learn coding fundamentals. No shortcuts.
• Practice after every class
• Review your assessment and don’t repeat the mistakes
• Be part of live industrial project
• Prepare list of problems you want to solve through technology

Experience genuine coding learning with LearnQoch!

Happy Coding!