Lesson 8 of 8 3 min read Free course

Free Drive

No goal this time — make any path you like and watch the robot follow it exactly. This is your own program.

Play

Build any path with the arrows, try a loop with ×N, and press Go. The robot does exactly what you tell it — no more, no less. If it drives off the edge, that is a bug: find the step and fix it.

Make any path you like. Try a loop. Then Go.

For the grown-up

Open play is how children make coding their own. Ask them to predict where the robot will end up before pressing Go — predicting the result is real programming thinking.

What next?

If your child enjoyed these, our courses go further: Little Coders (free, ages 3–5), Code Play (ages 5–9), Python for Kids and First Web Page (ages 10–14). See them all on the coding for kids page.

For the grown-up

This is a free activity 8 of 8 in Coding Games for Kids: Free Puzzles to Learn to Code — Eight free coding games children play right in the browser — steer a robot, spot the bug, finish the pattern, sort the boxes — each one teaching a real idea behind every programming language. No account, nothing to install. You read the one-line prompt aloud and your child taps the answer; there is nothing to install, the child needs no account of their own, and nothing they do is stored.

Tip: These games are a free taster. Let your child play the ones they enjoy in any order; a few minutes at a time is plenty. When they want more, the paid courses for their age go deeper.

A few minutes at a time is plenty, and doing the same activity again is good — repetition is how these first ideas stick. When your child is ready for short sentences and their own typing, the paid courses for older ages carry on from here. See how we handle children's data on our privacy page.