Ask HN: How do I get a 16 year old started with programming?

Posted by satejs on Monday June 05, 2017 @09:42PM
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My girlfriend's sister just graduated Grade 10, and is confused about career choices. I'd like to give her an introduction to CS over the next two months. I've already impressed her with the skills and applications that CS brings along from ML to AI. I was personally going to start her off with App Inventor since she has no programming background whatsoever and has a smartphone. Any help?

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get a 16 year old started with programming? by peki on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:37AM (#14495008)

Have a look at Datacamp's Intro to Python for Data Science? I think its a good introduction to programming

https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-sc...

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get a 16 year old started with programming? by oblib on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @09:59AM (#14497234)

Have you heard of the Raspberry Pi Foundation?

Pretty hard to do better than this:

https://www.raspberrypi.org

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get a 16 year old started with programming? by Turing_Machine on Monday June 05, 2017 @10:30PM (#14494248)

The Alice project from CMU may be worth a look:

http://www.alice.org/

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