How do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience? How do you teach programming to children that can yet read or write?
Primo kickstarted at the tail end of last year with the goal of building a robot that was programmable using a tactile interface. Children place coloured tiles representing simple directional commands (forward, back, left, right) as well as a function command—which calls the last line of commands in the board every time it is encountered.
Not only does this teach children programming, it changes their perspective on problem solving and logic in general.
The Primo is available for pre-order and should be shipping in April next year, but if you can’t wait that long all the instructions, source files and other things you need to make your own are available online.
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