Screen-free coding toys are fantastic for teaching young children logic and sequencing, but they hit a ceiling fast—and real programming lives on screens with actual code. This episode maps the exact progression path for moving kids aged six to ten from physical coding toys to Scratch and Python, covering the prerequisite skills they must demonstrate before advancing, which hardware bridges the gap most effectively, and how to sequence instruction over eight to sixteen weeks so learners don't plateau or regress. If you've invested in robot toys and coding board games and wonder what comes next, this is your blueprint.

• Never advance a child to Scratch until they can verbally articulate an eight-to-twelve-step algorithm before placing physical tokens—random trial-and-error swapping means they're not ready, and premature transition cre ...