Code.org created something ingenious. The plethora of learn it yourself fun game-like software design programs have created this bite-sized introductions and made it available for free on their website the week of December 8-14.

Schools across the world (yes – WORLD!) are offering students a window of an hour of instruction to get them excited about computer programming. Baden Academy has every student K-5 popping into the media lab to try their hands at making an Angry Bird flap through a maze, or an electric circuit reach a light bulb, to create a card in Scratch, or their first mobile app in App Inventor.

This is not the computer science programming class you took in high school.  Give your child a heads up and try to complete one or two of the Hour of Code activities on http://csedweek.org/learn.