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Life & fun · June 5, 2019

Spy Codes: free booklet for kids (2018)

Spy Codes: free booklet for kids (2018) launched on June 5, 2019 with 75 votes, #472 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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Spy Codes is a free booklet designed for children that teaches coding concepts through spy-themed activities and games. Created by Secret Geek, it introduces kids to programming logic and problem-solving in an engaging narrative format. The resource combines education with entertainment, making it accessible to young learners interested in learning code basics through a fun, story-driven approach.

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I love this! I built this and extensively field-tested it with my own crack team of super spies (my kids). It's 6 pages of my favorite Spy Codes, for use with your own budding spy team (i.e. your kids). It's a FREE PDF, a dense little book, guaranteed to bring you hours of fun. (And give your kids a lot of practice at performing lookups.) It is vital that your child does not let this book fall into enemy hands. Using these sheets to encrypt and decrypt messages is a practical introduction to substitution ciphers. If your kids (or students) enjoy these, there are many, many more advanced concepts that pick up where these exercises end. Last year I blogged about: Dadding 101: Give Your Kids A…from secretgeek.net

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