Courses for Kids

A lot of friends are asking me about programming and design courses for kids of all ages. After a simple search across the internet and tutorial sites like Tuts+, Smashing Magazine and Code.org, I gathered a long list of great courses and tutorials for them. Here's the shortlist.

Design — Web Design (HTML & CSS for kids): Envato Tuts+ Kids Web Design Tutorials, Pluralsight's Basic HTML for Kids, and Udemy's Kids Coding — Beginner HTML and Beginner CSS courses.

Adobe Photoshop — Adobe Photoshop for Kids! by Envato Tuts+, hosted by Kirk Nelson and his creative daughters. Also great: the For Kids Design & Illustration Tutorials category on Tuts+, and the Adobe Education Exchange (filterable by Category, Product, Subject and Age Level).

Photography — Pluralsight's Photography Basics covers all the foundations of composition and good photography for beginners.

Coding — Code.org's Computer Science Fundamentals (all ages), Tynker (everything your child needs to learn computer programming the fun way, ages 7+), Pluralsight's Learning How to Program with Scratch, and Khan Academy's Computer Programming track (drawings, animations, games with JavaScript & ProcessingJS).

Courses in All Fields — e-learningforkids.org, Udemy's kids course catalog, Khan Academy (math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and finance — all free), and the Adobe Education Exchange. To be continued…