Let’s build your first program. Right now. You can do this in under a minute.

First, open CryptoBlocks in your browser. You’ll see a workspace in the middle and a sidebar on the left called the Brick Bin. That’s where all your blocks live.

Click on the “Output” category in the Brick Bin. You’ll see a flyout with different blocks. Grab the “print” block and drag it into the workspace.

The print block has a slot where you can put text. Click on the “Text” category in the Brick Bin, grab a text block, and snap it into the print block’s slot. Type something. Your name. A message. Whatever.

Now hit the Run button at the top.

Your program executes and the output appears in the panel at the bottom. You just wrote and ran a program.

Want to do more? Go back to the Output category and grab another print block. Stack it under your first one. Blocks that touch each other run in order, top to bottom. Add some text and run it again. Two lines of output.

Try the Math category. Grab a math block, change the operation to multiplication, and print the result. Now you’re doing calculations.

That’s the whole pattern: grab blocks from the Brick Bin, snap them together, and run. Every block does one thing. Stack them to build something bigger.

You just became a programmer. Keep going.