Coding Elective Creative Coding
Get creative with code as you tell interactive stories, animate art, compose music, and design games!
Beginner Level
Code at Your Own Pace
3 Courses
329 Activities
Earn Certificate
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What's Inside!
With Tynker, kids use beginner-friendly drag-and-drop programming tools to create games, animations, and much more. Watch your code come to life! What will you create?
What You'll Learn:
- Discover programming through art, animation, music, and game design.
- Create animations, tell stories, and compose music — using code blocks.
- Patient, step-by-step instructions perfect for first-time coders.
- Save the world with Professor Ada.
- Get ideas for inventing your own original Tynker projects!
No Prerequisites
Recommended for Ages 6+
How It Works:
Start a Course
From your student dashboard, select EXPLORE and search — or browse to Tynker’s Creative Coding courses. Choose any one of the Creative Coding courses that sounds appealing. We recommend starting with Ada’s Adventure if your child is a first-time coder.
But there’s no wrong place to begin! You can sample as many courses as you like to find the right fit.
Completing Lessons
All Tynker lessons are self-guided. Each interactive lesson includes concept introductions, coding puzzles, step-by-step tutorials, and assessments. As you advance through each course, your work is automatically saved, and you can restart wherever you left off. You’ll unlock badges and achievements, too, as you make progress.