Beginner Level
Build 21 Projects
Code at Your Own Pace
Earn Certificate
Complete 39 Lessons
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What's Inside!
Our creativity tools, interactive story-based lessons, and fun characters will motivate students to learn fundamental programming concepts and take their first big steps toward coding.
What You'll Learn:
- Break big problems down into smaller steps.
- Explore foundational coding and debugging techniques in a visual, kid-friendly way.
- Build a solid foundation of CS concepts like sequencing, pattern recognition, event-handling, loops, and conditional logic, all through play-based learning.
- Create original programs with pen-based art, music, and animation in open-ended creative coding sandboxes.
- Build and debug simple programs in Tynker Workshop.
Students with coding experience can skip ahead with a placement test.
Elective Courses: Minecraft Modding, Art & Music
Prerequisites
Recommended for Ages 5+
How It Works:
Guided Learning
If you’ve never coded before, start with Level 1. Complete each Lesson — your progress will be saved as you advance through the Lesson Map.
Take a Placement Test
If the first few lessons seem too easy for you, go to Level 2 (or whichever level seems most appropriate given your experience). You’ll be prompted to complete a placement test. After completing it, you’ll be placed in the correct level. If you advance, all lessons from previous levels will be unlocked, so that you can go back and explore exciting coding projects and challenges.
Note: Without successfully passing a placement test, you won’t be able to skip ahead. You can also complete all the lessons on the map to proceed to the next level.
Complete All Lessons
Level 1 has 39 coding lessons in 6 units. You should be able to finish each lesson in about 20-30 minutes, but you can complete them at your own pace. We recommend completing a lesson every day, but you can decide to go faster or slower. A routine of coding and learning can help anyone achieve success.
All Tynker lessons are self-guided. Each interactive lesson includes concept introductions, coding puzzles, step-by-step tutorials, and assessments.
Earn a Certificate
At the end of each unit, practice tests will help students prepare for the end-of-level assessments. By completing the Assessment Test with a score of 80% or higher, you’ll earn a certificate. A certificate is not required to continue to the next level. However, we recommend that students complete the level assessment and earn these credentials so that they can share their accomplishments with prospective colleges or employers.
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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.
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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 -
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Intermediate
Minecraft Modding: Cosmic Chronicles
Explore new biomes as you create intricate Minecraft structures, mods, and games using visual coding.
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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 -
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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.
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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
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.