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March 06, 2026
From Block-Based to Python: Navigating the Coding Journey with SPIKE Prime
Coding is seldom a “fun” subject when you’re getting started. For beginners, coding lessons take a while before they can ‘do’ or create things. Because of the steep learning curve, it's a while before it becomes interesting, and until then, you’re just learning things in the hopes that it will someday be useful.
Adults often understand the benefits and will stick through the boring part. Kids? Not so much.
To bridge this gap, many other organisations have come up with block-based coding programs for kids.
But how do we get kids from block-based coding and visual programming to text-based coding languages? That’s where




