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Kano Kit Teaches Kids Computer and Coding

Kano computer kit is the most donated project on the internet till now. Kano is a programmable computer that designed for children. Kano produced in pieces need to combine before use.

Yusuf Demir
Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter
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Kano Kit Teaches Kids Computer and Coding

Kano computer kit is the most donated project on the internet till now. Kano is a programmable computer that designed for children. Kano produced in pieces need to combine before use. So children learn the parts of computer and how parts should combine to each other. You can connect your Kano to a TV screen or a monitor.

Company has a slogan that ‘’ Kano was produced for not only use it but also it produced for a generation who wants to create it.’’ The campaign has reached 100K Dollars in just 18 hours on Kickstarter. So at the end of campaign, Kano was funded over $ 1.5 million from 13K supporter on Kickstarter.

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Kano says that ‘’ We think that if the control in your hands as in a computer game, you learn faster and better. ‘’ And company also said that ‘’ We love visual programming language especially Scratch.’’

New software learning game named Kano Blocks created inspiring by Google’s blocky games. When Kano blocks combine to each other, children get the Python and Javascript output in the game. Thus children having fun to learn coding. Kano has six different stages that code writing skills are developing by completing each one.

Kano use a Raspberry Pi 3 with Linux operating system. Kano kit will be sold with display 179 dollars and without display 149 dollars. Kano’s first delivery date in June 2016.

photo credit: thesun.co.uk

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Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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