Coding Fundamentals: LEVEL
1 2 3 Programming Basics

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Space Cadet

Experience Tynker's all-time classic puzzles while exploring programming concepts like sequencing and iteration with code blocks. Avoid aliens and escape the forbidden planet!

6 Lessons:

1. Welcome
2. Crash Landed
3. Dance Party

4. Stay the course
5. Walk. Jump. Repeat
6. Unit 1 Quiz

Events and Debugging

Take control of code with events, then learn how to find and fix common errors. Debugging is a big part of any programmer’s work!

5 Lessons:

7. Glitchy Code
8. Asteroids
9. Shifty Aliens

10. Blast Off!
11. Unit 2 Quiz

Dragon Spells! More on Sequencing

Dive deeper into coding by collecting treasure! Explore advanced coding constructs in a fun, visual way by controlling your dragon.

6 Lessons:

12. Dragon Eggs
13. Blast Through
14. Déjà Vu

15. Twisted Trees
16. Dragon Scrolls
17. Unit 3 Quiz

Logic and Interaction

Write programs that “make decisions” all on their own by using conditionals. Then learn how to organize your code with functions. Collect more treasure, too!

6 Lessons:

18. Ancient Spells
19. Catch Me If You Can
20. The Long Road

21. Gem Collector
22. Dragon Maker
23. Unit 4 Quiz

Creative Studio

The sky’s the limit in these open-ended playgrounds. Control what happens with code. There’s no wrong answer — just have fun and make something cool, all on your own.

9 Lessons:

24. Seabed Scribbler
25. Wild Tracks
26. Jelly Bash

27. Barbershop Bayou
28. Emoji Chat
29. Day in the Park

30. Deep Sea Salvage
31. Birthday Card
32. Unit 5 Quiz

Animation & Sound Lab

Start coding all-new projects with Tynker Workshop — play musical tunes and make a racket! Explore how you can coordinate the action using messages and events.

7 Lessons:

33. Animation and Sound
34. Write a Story
35. Lights, Music, Action

36. Frame Based Animation
37. Custom Characters
38. Drums and Instruments

39. Unit 6 Quiz

Assessment

Put your skills to the test — keep up the momentum and continue on your coding pathway.

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$780 $312 one time USD payment 28% savings over Quarterly
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Access everything Tynker offers, plus expert coaching

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  • Personalized assessments and certifications in real-world languages
  • 5,000+ lessons built to improve problem solving skills and academic performance
  • 30 Day Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee

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    Minecraft Modding: Sandsville Sorcerer

    Embark on a magical quest while mastering the art of crafting Minecraft skins, items, blocks, mobs, and more!

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    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to create skins, mythical creatures, fascinating structures and code mob behavior, all while enhancing  computational thinking skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, mobs & build structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Create custom skins for players
    • Design a mythical animal and bring them to life
    • Modify mobs behavior using code
    • Foster creativity while designing intricate structures
    • Enchant tools to defend village from mobs
    • Introduction to computational thinking via Minecraft Modding
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Sequencing Computational Thinking Creative Building STEM: Plants and Animals Commands Mob Editing Use of Inventory 3D Structures Modding Spawning Enhancements

  • Intermediate

    Minecraft Modding: Cosmic Chronicles

    Explore new biomes as you create intricate Minecraft structures, mods, and games using visual coding.

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    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to build structures using coding, survival skills and fundamental redstone techniques, all while honing the coding skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, create mods & build complex structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn survival hacks in Minecraft
    • Build faster using code
    • Enchant items in Minecraft
    • Explore different biomes
    • Learn to create basic redstone circuits
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners to Intermediate
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Creative Building Coding Fundamentals Design Thinking Curiosity & Innovation Mob Editing Crafting Underwater Structures Modding Enhancements Survival Hacks

  • Advanced

    Minecraft Modding: Redstone Revelation

    Become a redstone master as you craft planetary havens, powered rails, TNT cannons, and code-driven traps.

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    Embark on 30+ highly complex missions to build innovative habitats, mine, and create transportation systems, all while mastering the art of redstone engineering. Students will learn to build complex structures, redstone mechanisms, and mod with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn about ores and how to process them to extract material
    • Build strong problem solving and reasoning skills by building structures and crafting items using code
    • Learn planning by playing effectively using limited resources
    • Foster critical thinking by working with redstone mechanisms
    • Learn game mechanics in Minecraft
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Problem Solving Coding Fundamentals Game Design STEM: Circuits and Engineering Mob Editing Redstone Mechanics Modding Dispenser Pulsar TNT Cannon Command Blocks

  • Beginner

    Minecraft Modding: Sandsville Sorcerer

    Embark on a magical quest while mastering the art of crafting Minecraft skins, items, blocks, mobs, and more!

    Create your schedule: anytime, any day.

    % OFF

    Classes

    $0 $0 / class

    $0 one time payment

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    Course Overview

    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to create skins, mythical creatures, fascinating structures and code mob behavior, all while enhancing  computational thinking skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, mobs & build structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Create custom skins for players
    • Design a mythical animal and bring them to life
    • Modify mobs behavior using code
    • Foster creativity while designing intricate structures
    • Enchant tools to defend village from mobs
    • Introduction to computational thinking via Minecraft Modding
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Sequencing Computational Thinking Creative Building STEM: Plants and Animals Commands Mob Editing Use of Inventory 3D Structures Modding Spawning Enhancements

  • Intermediate

    Minecraft Modding: Cosmic Chronicles

    Explore new biomes as you create intricate Minecraft structures, mods, and games using visual coding.

    Create your schedule: anytime, any day.

    % OFF

    Classes

    $0 $0 / class

    $0 one time payment

    Book a Class

    Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee*

    Show Hide Course Details

    Course Overview

    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to build structures using coding, survival skills and fundamental redstone techniques, all while honing the coding skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, create mods & build complex structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn survival hacks in Minecraft
    • Build faster using code
    • Enchant items in Minecraft
    • Explore different biomes
    • Learn to create basic redstone circuits
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners to Intermediate
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Creative Building Coding Fundamentals Design Thinking Curiosity & Innovation Mob Editing Crafting Underwater Structures Modding Enhancements Survival Hacks

  • Advanced

    Minecraft Modding: Redstone Revelation

    Become a redstone master as you craft planetary havens, powered rails, TNT cannons, and code-driven traps.

    Create your schedule: anytime, any day.

    % OFF

    Classes

    $0 $0 / class

    $0 one time payment

    Book a Class

    Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee*

    Show Hide Course Details

    Course Overview

    Embark on 30+ highly complex missions to build innovative habitats, mine, and create transportation systems, all while mastering the art of redstone engineering. Students will learn to build complex structures, redstone mechanisms, and mod with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn about ores and how to process them to extract material
    • Build strong problem solving and reasoning skills by building structures and crafting items using code
    • Learn planning by playing effectively using limited resources
    • Foster critical thinking by working with redstone mechanisms
    • Learn game mechanics in Minecraft
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Problem Solving Coding Fundamentals Game Design STEM: Circuits and Engineering Mob Editing Redstone Mechanics Modding Dispenser Pulsar TNT Cannon Command Blocks
* Lifetime plan details are available here.

3-Year All-Access plans include:

  • 70+ courses
  • 5,000+ activities
  • Block Coding
  • Text Coding
  • 3 Mobile Apps
  • Minecraft Modding
  • Game Design
  • Robotics
  • Hardware
  • Web Development
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Processing (P5.JS)
  • Data Science
  • Advanced CS

Tynker is designed to progress with your child. A three year plan accelerates their coding mastery from block coding to advanced text languages.