Code with Ava

The applications are intended for interactive floors controlled by light pens and for PCs. Check devices. Applications are controlled by the interactive pens.

Fictionalized applications create a play collection full of adventures and interesting missions to perform. These games stimulate visual perception, spatial orientation, logical and algorithmic thinking. The aim of the work of the specialists creating these applications was to create a tool that, through the use of boards with an adjustable grid of fields (from 3x3 to 10x10), will enable the development of programming skills in early childhood education.

Children can practice sequencing, using loops, reading coordinates, and graphical patterns recognition. The ability to track the sequence being executed on the board makes it easier to understand and detect possible mistakes in the code. The apps support the development of math skills such as addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. Depending on the game, students can practice finding the right solution or solving the problem creatively. Sometimes they may observe and repeat the sequence of symbols, other times they may create the route or graphical pattern by themselves. This is a powerful tool supporting the education of the basics of coding. The authors of the Code with Ava applications tried to respond to the developmental needs of preschool and school children, focusing primarily on supporting motor and sensory skills during organized and safe activities.

Code with Ava is a coding course with fifty-four applications grouped into seven thematic adventures: Graphical coding, Encrypted routes, Escapes from mazes, Garden paths, Word coding, Numbered paths, Alchemists coordinates. Each group is a kind of a mini coding course placed in a different context. Each application is a set of properly designed interactive coding boards. The board consists of a grid of fields and a toolbox with which the student solves the task by e.g. designing with arrows the route for Ava, creating colourful pictures by applying colours on the grid, specifying the location of objects using coordinate selection, or by marking the path directly on the grid. In applications, the difficulty level can be adjusted by varying the size of the boards used, the length of the mapped routes, the complexity of the formulas used, the scope of the mathematical operations entered, the number of items to be collected or avoided on the boards. It is a comprehensive tool that supports coding learning in early childhood education. The main character of the course is Ava, a brave traveler who visits the planets in the Funn Galaxy. She carries out many missions to care for the peaceful life of its inhabitants. Ava has seven planets to visit: Planet of Artists, Explorers, Alchemists, Gardeners, Planet of the Wild West, Librarians, and Scientists. Each of them has a lot of different tasks to perform that introduce students to the basics of coding and programming step by step.