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Get started at home with programming and coding

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  You might not recognize it when your son is hanging upside down on the couch with a screen in front of his sniff, but he's actually doing quite well.  He is busy developing his 21st-century skills.  Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Society is constantly changing due to digitization and technology.  We cannot yet predict which professions there will be when your child grows up later.  That is why education is increasingly interested in 21st-century skills.  These are the skills that children of today must acquire in order to cope with the professions of the future later on.   Coding and programming One of the eleven skills is Computational thinking.  Children learn to use digital tools in a creative way to solve a problem.  This is also where the frequently mentioned coding and programming skills come into play.  Skills with which you can later build a website or game yourself, with which you can vlog or edit your own sound.  Coding is literally punching in codes, part of the b