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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
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f you’re looking for a summer camp
that’s tons of fun, allergen-free and has a
0 percent chance of poison ivy, the Code
Ninjas summer camps are for you. Code
Ninjas, a computer programming academy
that uses the martial arts theme as an
analogy for coding, has 11 unique summer
camps ranging from Robotics to Javascript to
Roblox Create to choose from. Camps have
both full- and half-day options, with a full-
day camp lasting from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., each day.
Owned by Veronica Yusz-Meyner and Dave Meyner, a husband
and wife team of engineers, Code Ninjas is a place where
absolute novices can master the computer languages of C# and
Javascript by the time they earn their black belts in coding.
“Everyone goes through a belt system and starts with
Scratch—a programming language geared toward small
children developed by MIT,” said Yusz-Meyner. “They work up to
C# and Javascript and, at the end of their training, they are able
to submit an app that they created to the App Store.”
The way Code Ninjas works is through a self-paced, drop-in
curriculum. The dojo has space for up to 30 students at a time,
but the drop-in scheduling means that there will always be seats
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available. It also means parents don’t have to
worry about having another commitment on
the calendar that they need to plan around.
Instructors, or senseis, help kids through the
curriculum and ensure that kids can advance
at their own pace. The results of their
learning can be seen almost immediately
as they create games out of predefined
building blocks of code.
“The first step is getting students to
think like programmers, think about the logic and progression
of things, how to order them so that they flow, and then how
to make that happen,” Meyner said. “In the beginning, they’re
learning problem solving and group teamwork. They’re working
just as they would be on a programming development team, but
they’re all working on their own individual projects. They won’t
just be sitting there typing away. This has been created to be fun
and it really is.”
For more information on Code Ninjas, go to codeninjas.com/
locations/pa-wexford online, where you can see a full overview
of the program and request more information to be sent to
you via email. For more information on the summer camps in
particular, go to codeninjas.com/camps/pa-wexford.