# Teaching kids elm

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/teaching-kids-elm/7733>\
**Category:** Learn\
**Created:** [September 6, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/teaching-kids-elm/7733 "2021-09-06T05:26:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexandru-calinoiu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/alexandru-calinoiu/32/2881_2.png) [@alexandru-calinoiu](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/alexandru-calinoiu)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/teaching-kids-elm/7733/1 "2021-09-06T05:26:56Z")

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Hi,

My kids want to start programming, and of course the first think they want to do is games :). They did play around until now with scratch until now.

I have this idea that functional programing is way better to learn initially and I know there are a couple of games out there written in elm.

I was wondering if you know any good resources to get them started with game development in elm?

Regards,

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**Author:** ![mburri](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/mburri/32/3159_2.png) [@mburri](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/mburri)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/teaching-kids-elm/7733/2 "2021-09-06T07:45:32Z")

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I’d try it with Evans package: [elm-playground 1.0.3](https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/evancz/elm-playground/latest/)

As he states in the docs, there are some success stories that used this package in the past to help kids start with programming…

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**Author:** ![lucamug](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/lucamug/32/1764_2.png) [@lucamug](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/lucamug)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/teaching-kids-elm/7733/3 "2021-09-06T10:58:59Z")

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McMaster school has a lot of material about teaching Elm to Kids

[http://outreach.mcmaster.ca/#coding-tools](http://outreach.mcmaster.ca/#coding-tools)

[https://twitter.com/MacCSOutreach](https://twitter.com/MacCSOutreach)

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**Author:** ![alexandru-calinoiu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/alexandru-calinoiu/32/2881_2.png) [@alexandru-calinoiu](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/alexandru-calinoiu)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/teaching-kids-elm/7733/4 "2021-09-07T05:23:17Z")

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I like it, it shows promise, there is a lot of material online looks like from a course that happens offline from time to time, will take a closer look and see how far we get.

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/1X/50a05e53677a2c3b47776d7abd0f113eb50193a1.png) [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/teaching-kids-elm/7733/5 "2021-09-17T05:23:33Z")

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