Hakitzu: the app teaching kids to code

This video is about an app that was created by London games studio Kuato. This app called Hakitzu enables children to learn the basics of programming language Java script, in a fun and playful way so that the children would not get bored. The people behind this creation are developers, animators and most importantly teachers. The game is that 11 to 14 year olds have to defeat their opponents by typing the correct words. If they defeat their opponents that means they learned to decode. The creators carefully used a lot of graphics that gets the attention of the children and made the game challenging and ambitious.

What I thought was really cool was that they used teachers to help create thus app. The best people to know what children likes and how to learn are teachers. Honestly, I am not that fond with technology gadgets. However,  I have researched this app and it was surely really fun to play with. Even I learned a lot from it. The game teaches you a lot of things and even though it is for children from 11 to 14 I think that adults can really learn from it as well. Nevertheless, you learn to analyze and use strategies to accomplish your goal.

Bibliography:

Cawley, S and Boyd, P(2 may 2013) the guardian, Hakitzu: the app teaching kids to code. Retrieved from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/may/02/hakitzu-app-teaching-kids-code-video