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Coding Summer Camp in San Diego, CA

The San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad, CA metro area has about 3,282,248 residents, ranking 18th in the country. The case for coding summer camp here is not that the area lacks camps — it is that most of them end without the child being able to explain what they made.

Ages 7-14 · For families · California · West

Coding Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in San Diego, CA
Coding Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in San Diego, CA

What the week actually is

Most coding camps teach syntax and lose the child by Wednesday. This one teaches the loop — write, run, it breaks, read the error, fix it — because that loop is what a programmer actually does and it is learnable at seven.

Day by day

  1. Logic on paper before a keyboard
  2. First program, first error message
  3. Read the error, fix the error
  4. Build something with a user who is not you
  5. Showcase: hand it to someone and watch

San Diego, CA — what applies locally

  • The San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad, CA metro area has about 3,282,248 residents, ranking 18th in the country.
  • Metro area: San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad, CA
  • State: California · Region: West

Questions we get from San Diego, CA

Which language?
Block-based for the youngest, then Python. The language matters far less than whether the child will read an error message instead of panicking.
Screen time all week?
No. Roughly half the week is off-screen: planning on paper, tracing logic by hand, testing on each other.
Is it too late to start at 13?
No. Thirteen-year-olds move faster than anyone; what they need is a reason, not an earlier start.

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