Creative Coding for Kids

Specialties

We teach kids the joy of computer programming by helping them write their own custom video games! We’re proud to be Seattle’s First, Best, and most FUN coding education provider for elementary-​aged kids.

We offer after-​school classes (on-​campus at local schools), All-​Day Camps (during school holidays) and Summer Camps.

Hi, I’m Eric, the founder. Read my story on our website (and see pics of me and my first student, my daughter Kate!) I’m a father, a coder, and a teacher.

My goal in founding Creative Coding was simple: To be the very best IN THE WORLD at teaching programming to grade-​school aged kids. With no compromises.

That means super-​small classes (typical max:12), a 6:1 student-​teacher ratio, and extensive teacher training. It’s expensive to do things this way, but that’s what it takes to be the very best.

And, based on parent feedback, we’re succeeding! Our innovative, project-​based, kid-​driven curriculum is fun, yet rigorous. And it works, brilliantly.

We offer both beginner and advanced classes, and classes be repeated an infinite # of times, without ever repeating content. Our non-​sequential curriculum makes this possible. Each time kids complete a class, they go up one Level. We have some Level 10+ elementary-​aged kids who are coding like high-​schoolers!

We work hard to welcome girls and boys equally, with lots of female teachers, and a positive, healthy coed classroom environment.

Visit our website for more info or to sign up your kids!

History

Established in 2013.

We built our reputation on our Summer Camps, which has had the Seattle parent community abuzz in increasingly large numbers since they launched in 2013.

As you may have heard, our camps are absolutely fantastic. And not just because our innovative approach to teaching coding is so effective. We actually teach several things at once.

We use a «fun first, kid-​driven» model that is project-​based (they make their game) and built on guided self-​discovery.

When we teach coding, we don’t just lead them along a pre-​determined path to create a game which they don’t really understand how to re-​create later. We teach them core skills, applicable to any language, along with feature development, debugging skills, and most importantly: how to learn and discover on their own. So they can continue to create software long after the class is over. It’s the basic concepts that matter. Scratch is good at reducing syntax-​based barriers to learning.

Meet the Business Owner

Eric F.

Business Owner

Besides being a proud full-​time dad, I often help friends start or improve businesses that help people. Among other things, I co-​founded Post​cardly​.com.

In my previous career I was a computer geek, Software Developer, I.T. Supervisor, and Oracle Database Developer at T-​Mobile and Tenzing Communications.

I was also, in my younger days, a Sr. Computer Trainer at the University of Michigan. I developed and taught classes in computer literacy to incoming freshmen and MBA students. (yes, there really was a time when most college students needed to be taught how to use a computer. Yes I am that old.)

I was a kid-​coder too. Way back in the day, I wrote a lot of computer games on my C-​64 that were totally awesome. 64 KILOBYTES, baby!