I Want To Teach My Son’s Computational Thinking

Kemie Lin
1 min readFeb 2, 2017

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My son is four years old. I want to let my son learn some logical thinking and problem solving skills because I hope he can have programming skills in the future. I know it is difficult for a four years old child to program, so I just want him to think computationally.

I had an idea three days ago. I decided to design a board game with some blocks, fruits, animals, numbers, and alphabet cards. I can use these cards and LEGO blocks to make a map, setting some roadblocks and asking questions for players to solve like “Let the Rabbit find three carrots” to get players thinking of solutions for the question.

I downloaded some icons yesterday to designed the cards and a block board by Illustrator but it was not finished. I want to use this board game to teach my son logic and problem solving skills. Even though I did not finish the board game, I get so excited when designing these cards and I looking forward to playing the game with my son.

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Kemie Lin

I’m not only a project director of MacroViz interactive design company, a web development teacher, a full-stack web designer and also a mother of two children