The Maker movement is helping to bridge the gap between pure learning tools and professional engineering, getting kids interested in coding early. Raspberry Pi, a Linux computer made for education, is great at teaching how computers work and is popular in the Maker community. But what about making stuff for the web? The community is there, the hardware is there, the momentum is there. So let's help out and bring the web to the makers.

The Coder platform and projects are targeted at middle-schoolers - the ages where students lose interest in computer science. The platform is free and accessible to all, with inexpensive hardware that is easily deployed; particularly into typically under-served educational and youth development programs. Anyone can try, learn, and play with coding for the web, without the expense and intimidation that usually comes with learning code from scratch.