On April 24th, at the 79th China Education Equipment Exhibition, the leading brand of programming cat in the children’s programming industry launched the open ecology of programming education, opening the two ecosystems of tools and content for the whole industry, empowering the industry in an all-round way, and promoting the popularization of domestic programming education.
So far, Programming Cat has served more than 21,000 schools across the country and has nearly 600 offline cooperation centers, covering 34 provincial-level administrative regions and 343 prefecture-level cities in China.
Li Tianchi, founder and CEO of Programming Cat, said that Programming Cat has accumulated profound technical and content strength in the field of programming education in the past. We hope that through open cooperation and co-creation, we can help more users, public schools, and social institutions better develop programming education based on these achievements of Programming Cat, work together to build a programming education ecosystem, and better improve the scientific and technological literacy of the next generation.
"Programming Tools + Content" Open ecological double helix, deeply empowering the industry in all directions
The open ecosystem of Programming Cat Education includes two major ecosystems of tools and content, helping users and partners to use Programming Cat’s tools and content more conveniently and efficiently; at the same time, it is necessary to join hands with multiple parties to create and build an open ecosystem.
Newly released programming tool matrix, free to use forever
At present, Programming Cat has built a matrix of programming tools for teenagers aged 4-16, including Little Rocket Toddler Programming Roki, Source Code Editor Kitten, Mobile End Programming Tool Programming Cat Nemo, Turtle Editor Turtle, Code Island Box, etc. This time, Programming Cat will fully open the programming tool matrix, and launch two new hardware programming tools, Maker IDE, a graphical hardware programming tool, and Cat: Bit, a programmable main control board. So far, the tool matrix has fully opened up software and hardware applications, covering all stages of children, primary schools, and middle schools, and realizing multi-scene coverage on the PC side and mobile end.
The programming cat tool ecosystem has three major highlights: first, the tool is permanently free, and all programming tools released this time will be permanently open to users for free use; second, the access ability is open, and the programming building block definition ability and hardware access ability are fully open; third, multi-person collaborative editing, and the follow-up will continue to develop and support multi-person online collaborative editing functions, allowing multiple people to jointly create a work.
Therefore, the release of the programming cat tool ecosystem maximizes the synergy effect of the tool matrix, on the one hand, it makes the user’s programming learning path more convenient, and meets the needs of multiple ages and scenarios. On the other hand, it also allows the industry to develop programming education based on the existing complete infrastructure, providing acceleration for the popularization of domestic programming education.
Open and shared high-quality content to create and build a programming education content ecosystem
Poor course content and lack of system are common problems facing the development of domestic programming education. Programming Cat has formed a "textbook + book magazine + IP" content moat matrix with "academic leadership teaching and research", and has accumulated more than 1,600 copyrights. It has won the "Shenzhen royalty fee award" for three consecutive years.
This time, the Programming Cat content ecosystem will open up textbooks, teaching content, books and magazines, and the Programming Cat community to the industry to achieve high-quality content sharing. "Co-creation and co-construction" is a major highlight of this content ecosystem.
On the one hand, Programming Cat will cooperate with publishing houses, colleges and universities, teachers and individual authors to create high-quality content; and encourage content creation based on programming tools such as the source code editor Kitten; at the same time, information technology teachers across the country can co-create and share programming teaching and research content in the programming teaching platform to achieve the perfect integration of teachers’ first-line teaching experience and teaching and research, and build a content creation platform through multiple channels to achieve the co-creation and co-construction of programming education content.
Programming Cat Community is a free graphical programming platform designed for users. Children can create novels, comics, and develop Mini Programs, etc., teach and learn, and gain from each other. It has accumulated tens of millions of users. As part of the open content ecosystem, this community will further promote the creation of a new student-centered education model in the future.
Unite multiple parties to build an open ecosystem and escort the popularization of programming education
As an innovative educational technology enterprise, Programming Cat adheres to technology-driven educational innovation and independently develops free domestic programming tool matrices and content covering all age groups. The release of this programming education open ecosystem is based on its strong technological innovation advantages, top academic achievements and teaching and research achievements.
Li Haiming, an information technology teacher at Xiyuan Primary School in Qingzhou City, Shandong Province, said that the release of the open ecology of programming cat programming education will enrich and improve the ecology of programming education, which will greatly help public schools like Xiyuan Primary School to carry out programming education. It can also stimulate teachers’ creative enthusiasm, allowing more children to be exposed to cutting-edge technologies earlier, and contributing to educational equity.
In the future, Programming Cat will also build an open ecosystem with the participation of users, partners, and developers based on the open ecosystem of programming education, and ultimately achieve the goal of enabling the whole society to use a complete programming education infrastructure to achieve better education.