# Editor Environment Highlight for Kids
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/editor-environment-highlight-for-kids/30700
**Category:** Teaching
**Created:** [June 14, 2021, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/editor-environment-highlight-for-kids/30700 "2021-06-14T08:11:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Viz](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Viz)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/editor-environment-highlight-for-kids/30700/1 "2021-06-14T08:11:43Z")
Hi, I am currently teaching a group of 11 to 12 year olds how to code simple games in javascript.
I’m trying to teach them about how functions work.
I was wondering if there could be a feature in the editor that displays a colour for any region between curly brackets and regular brackets. Something like this?
I think this will help the students to see where to write code.
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### Author:  [@micuat](https://discourse.processing.org/u/micuat)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/editor-environment-highlight-for-kids/30700/2 "2021-06-14T11:07:33Z")
none of that I know, but since CodeMirror (used by most of the browser based coding environment) supports [bracket matching](https://codemirror.net/6/docs/ref/#matchbrackets) it should be possible to implement - or you may be able to make it by cloning the p5.js editor and add your theme (which is not easy if you are not familiar with docker/html/css)
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### Author:  [@neilcsmith](https://discourse.processing.org/u/neilcsmith)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/editor-environment-highlight-for-kids/30700/3 "2021-06-14T12:46:29Z")
Reminds me a little of frame-based editing as here, although it’s not JavaScript.
[https://www.greenfoot.org/frames/](https://www.greenfoot.org/frames/)
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### Author:  [@Randomhouse](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Randomhouse)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/editor-environment-highlight-for-kids/30700/4 "2021-06-15T04:39:19Z")
Can you DM me about a paid project?
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### Author:  [@codeguppy](https://discourse.processing.org/u/codeguppy)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/editor-environment-highlight-for-kids/30700/5 "2021-07-31T16:42:58Z")
Hi! This looks like an interesting idea!
I don’t know any editor like that … but since you asked about a coding environment for kids – I want to highlight you [codeguppy.com](https://codeguppy.com)
It is an online coding environment based on p5.js for kids. It has also certain features on top of p5.js to make easier game dev. For instance it supports Microsoft MakeCode type-in sprites:
