..., the young child is not the default image that comes to mind. Yet early childhood education is fast becoming a site for teaching and learning valued skills like computational thinking (CT), programming and computational literacy. Children as young as preschool-age are engaging in coding with apps like...

... with coding. Originality/value There is a push to get coding and computational thinking into K-12, but there is not enough research on what this looks like in early childhood. Further, while research is starting to emerge on block-based programming vs text-based for older children and adults, little...