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Simon Taylor
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Director - Wonderblocks | Numberblocks
Working at Blue Zoo Animation Studios
Neurodiversity Advocate (youtube.com/@autismandanimation)
Passable Magician
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jasonelkin.uk
Wonderblocks is fantastic.

Watching it with 4yo, who's sick home from school. It's designed to teach young children to code.

The emphasis on stopping and breaking down complex problems is great.
A TV in a living room. Playing on the TV is a colourful scene where a group of anthropomorphic coloured blocks are holding hands. A green "go" block, 5 "do" blocks representing directions, and a red "stop" block are helping a frog to cross a river by forming a program.
March 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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jasonelkin.uk
This may just become required watching for any future junior devs I hire.
The "go", "grow leaf", "repeat" and "stop" Wonderblocks (anthropomorphic blocks representing actions) are holding hands in a line from left to right. "repeat" is forming a loop with "grow leaf", with a number 2 above his head representing how many more repeats there are.
March 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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computingdawn.bsky.social
Introduced Yr1 to Wonderblocks today and they loved it. Very clear links to ScratchJr. The children went on to make the frog hop higher and hop along the branch. Such a great resource 😊 @emmagoto.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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tiernandouieb.bsky.social
Very excited that Wonderblocks is finally coming to CBeebies. I wrote 4 of the eps despite having zero clue about coding & having to learn very quickly. Looks like it’ll be great fun.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
CBeebies unveils new educational animation series Wonderblocks to teach pre-coding skills
New educational series launches on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer from Monday 20 January
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM