{"id":19650,"date":"2019-11-20T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=19650"},"modified":"2023-08-06T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:44:09","slug":"remixing-with-tynker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/remixing-with-tynker\/","title":{"rendered":"Remixing With Tynker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Remixing With Tynker<br><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Pablo Picasso once said, &#8220;Good artists copy, great artists steal.&#8221; Does that make imitation flattering? Or just a reproduction?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did Tina Turner take the song &#8220;Proud Mary&#8221; to heights that CCR couldn&#8217;t? Did Joe Cocker raise the bar on the Beatles when he covered &#8220;With A Little Help From My Friends&#8221;?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s open to debate. How about when Run DMC rapped over Aerosmith rocker &#8220;Walk This Way&#8221;? A hit song, sure, but greatly impacting the music and culture of millions of Gen X suburban teens by introducing them to urban hip hop.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, computer coding is like any industry in that once a path is forged other coders can follow it, improve it, or take it in a completely different direction.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, how cool would it be to build on someone else&#8217;s work and use it as a launching pad to transform it into your own?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remix culture in the tech industry has been growing in recent years, a reaction to copyright restrictions that many believed were inhibiting creativity.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Tynker, coders can <em>REMIX<\/em> Games, Apps, Art, Stories, and Animation that other coders have posted to a community board, like the one pictured below.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120081901\/tynker-kid-made-projects-in-community-1024x618.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120081901\/tynker-kid-made-projects-in-community-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120081901\/tynker-kid-made-projects-in-community-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120081901\/tynker-kid-made-projects-in-community-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120081901\/tynker-kid-made-projects-in-community-768x463.png 768w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120081901\/tynker-kid-made-projects-in-community-1280x772.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Our community has millions of kid-published coding projects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, they\u2019re off on their own! However, Tynker makes sure that the original project\u2019s author gets credit in all future copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120082836\/tynker-sample-project-remix-tree-1024x519.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120082836\/tynker-sample-project-remix-tree-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120082836\/tynker-sample-project-remix-tree-150x76.png 150w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120082836\/tynker-sample-project-remix-tree-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120082836\/tynker-sample-project-remix-tree-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191120082836\/tynker-sample-project-remix-tree-1280x648.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The remix tree shows the pedigree of a project right from the original author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, remixing is just part of it. Tynker offers over 3,700 courses and tutorials for all experience levels, starting with kids ages 4 and up. Our award-winning programs emphasize interest-based paths that make learning to code not just fun but fast.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and we have Minecraft. Yes, that game that has your kid mesmerized. Your kid who\u2019s really good at it. Well, at Tynker, your kid can remix Minecraft, raise the bar; making their own Mods and Mobs, Skins and Items and Blocks. They\u2019ll know. And they\u2019ll figure out how to do it by learning code. 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