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A comment on Ask HN: How can I get my children excited about programming?. Parent comment
Indeed.
And I second that Scratch, which is great on many levels, is especially good as a starting point.
I have three kids (12,11,8) who started at 6+- and still enjoy it extensively.
I made BlockLike.js (https://www.blocklike.org) to make them progress, and it worked pretty good.
> The older they get the more ideas they may want to pursue on their own.
Indeed again.
The older one played with BlockLike, and then went exploring on his own.
He gets ideas from YouTube and just try’s them out. Landed here on the top of the front page with some cellular automata a couple of weeks back.
He is off to trying Python now...
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Indeed.
And I second that Scratch, which is great on many levels, is especially good as a starting point.
I have three kids (12,11,8) who started at 6+- and still enjoy it extensively.
I made BlockLike.js (https://www.blocklike.org) to make them progress, and it worked pretty good.
> The older they get the more ideas they may want to pursue on their own.
Indeed again.
The older one played with BlockLike, and then went exploring on his own.
He gets ideas from YouTube and just try’s them out. Landed here on the top of the front page with some cellular automata a couple of weeks back.
He is off to trying Python now...