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I hope you enjoyed this course and learned something new about how kids can learn to program and have fun doing it. The world of programming tools for kids is constantly changing and I wasn't able in this course to cover every useful tool that's out there, but here are a few more to check out. Alice is an educational tool. It includes a graphical programming environment for building 3D animations and plenty of educational resources. It's great for teaching object oriented programming concepts without getting bogged down in the syntax of say, Java. Alice let's kids build some great stuff as they learn about concepts like algorithms, classes, methods and inheritance. Hackety Hack is a code-based environment that teaches kids how to program in Ruby, letting them create turtle graphics. The hackety website has kid-friendly tutorials, and the software's completely free. There are also plenty of tutorials for kids on the web for other popular languages, including these for Ruby and for…

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