Can Pre-school Children Learn Programming and Coding Through Guided Play Activities? A Case Study in Computational Thinking

Abstract Guided play activities were developed so that coding clubs could promote computational thinking skills in preschool children. The involved fifteen children aged between 2 and 4 years, including a group of with communication difficulties. took part an action-research scoping study over three involving six 45–60-min sessions. to teach and, ultimately, concepts programming coding. findings suggested the began develop many necessary for as well such collaboration, logical debugging algorithms. However, they found specific algorithms into Bee-Bots complicated needed support from adults direct robots along routes on simple maps. Overall, guided be used nurseries establishments early skills.