Notes about choosing another language

New languages are always appearing, so you might prefer to teach your students something other than Scratch.

With our activities, we want to stress the "systematic reasoning" skill development in our students.

Free Options

App Inventor

3 Free PDFs!
(Step-by-step)

Kids Ruby

Ruby 4 Kids

Book on Amazon

Free/Paid Options

You may choose to develop your own curriculum using another language.

If you are looking for ideas, you might start on this page.  The free options are recommended but may require more teacher intervention.

Or, you may choose to evaluate online course offerings.  These sites charge $$ but offer some of their courses for FREE!

• Codecademy.com (code along)
  
• CodeSchool (code along + video)
• Pluralsight (video only)
• Treehouse (video)
• See others here on Code.org

Do you use a different site?  Let us know!