Code.org & Lightbot

The first website I tried out was www.code.org. This website offers free tutorials for beginners as well as apps to try on the iPad. The website offers 20 maze levels where the user has to complete by getting Bird #1 to Bird #2 by using different commands. Before each maze, the user is provided with a video to guide him or her to the completion of the level. Many videos star famous individuals such as Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft),  Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook), Drew Houston (founder of Dropbox) and others, which verifies the success of the website's tutorial. 

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The website promotes the "one hour of code" which tries to motivate everyone regardless of their age, background and experience to introduce themselves to coding. Although the website offers tutorials on different programming languages, I've only had the time to successfully complete the hour of code which provides players with core programming logic.

The app I tried, suggested by the same website, is "Lighbot One Hour Coding". This app is available on iOS, Android and on the web browser. It offers the option of several different languages, is intended for ages 4+ and has 3 main levels: Basics, Procedures and Loops. Each level has from 5 to 7 sub-levels the user is required to complete.