Artie Max teaches children (and adults) how to code. It's a great coding toy that is easy to connect to using a variety of devices (iPad, phone, chromebook, etc), it has a wide range of skill levels that it's suitable for, and it's engaging with immediate, tangible results. It's great to have the options for beginning, intermediate, and advanced. The advanced really gets into actual coding software languages like JavaScript, Python, and C++. The feature allowing you to simulate the drawing that you've coded is also great since it allows you to test out what it would look like, revive and edit, and test it out again before actually having it draw it on paper.

I liked that it incorporated so many programming languages from the most basic (Blockly) to full fledged syntax programming languages. I loved that one can code something and then see the results physically drawn on paper. It is great that one can switch between the three supplied marker colors and use similar diameter markers when more colors are wanted (or the supplied ones need to be replaced). It is also great that Artie has numerous sensors so it can follow a path and so it doesn't fall off a table or down stairs.

Children learn and practice STEAM skills, in particularly Computer Coding + problem solving. In addition there are opportunities for practicing math and art skills.