Of robots and binary trees: Kids in Singapore start young at coding

Trehaus pre-school is one of the pioneers in introducing computational thinking to young children here. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
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SINGAPORE - More children are tinkering with coding - and they are getting younger and younger.

Five years ago, they would be mostly students from primary and secondary schools, thanks largely to the Code for Fun enrichment programme offered by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore and the Ministry of Education.

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