The most popular online coding courses for children are Scratch by MIT and Turtle programming. Both courses
are well developed, and excellent for teaching programming basics.
This course differs in several important respects:
Social. Rusty Coding Club teaches as a group activity, with multiplayer games and students helping each other. This improves engagement, and parents have indicated their children look forward to attending this club.
Industry Language. Rusty Coding Club teaches Rust, while Turtle uses Logo and Scratch has it's own language. The reasons for Rust are covered separately. Logo is a very simple educational language, used for graphics and drawing. and Scratch is more complex, using graphical boxes to minimise the potential errors. Rust is well established in IT, and the syntax for the exercises is very similar to C, Java, JavaScript, and other popular languages. It also teaches compilers, which other classes gloss over.
More Mathematics. Turtle and Scratch use simple mathematics. Rusty Coding Club focussed equally on teaching mathematics as programming. It can be considered a mathematics club, using multiplayer games and programming to make the mathematics fun and relevant.
Why not python or typescript?
Python and Typescript/Javascript are very popular languages with plenty of tutorials on the internet, and job opportunities. All three are scripting languages - slow execution with limited applications. While Typescript has a compiler, Python and Javascript do not, and so require run time debugging, which would be frustrating for children as their character would constantly crash in the multiplayer games.