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What is a command?
The very first idea in coding. It takes about four minutes to get it.
Meet the block
A command is one instruction — one thing you tell the computer to do. A program is commands in a row. The computer follows them in order, left to right. Every block here moves one step.
So this one block says: move right, one step.
See it work
Read the blocks first. Right, right, right, then up. Where does the rocket stop?
The computer did exactly what the blocks said — nothing more, nothing less.
Your turn
Now you're the programmer.
Can you fly the rocket to the moon?
Land the 🚀 right on the 🌕.
Blocks
Your program
Go further
Can you reach the moon a different way?
Go up first, then across. Or mix them together — up, right, up, right, and keep going. It is the same six blocks every time; only the order changes. More than one program lands on the moon — find a second one.
For grown-ups
Your kid just wrote a program — a sequence of instructions the computer follows in order.
Keep going
Next in World 1What is a program? →Where this goes
Make a game other kids can play
The blocks on this page are a first taste. In a Kubrio project your kid builds a real game — powers, triggers, levels and all — and other kids get to play it.