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Re:Ask HN: What gift to teach a 7 year-old programming? by squidbot on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:04PM (#1984596)
Assuming he has a computer and an internet connection, send him this link: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

The author has done a fantastic job of capturing the feeling of the Basic Computer Games book where you can just type in the code and fun stuff happens. I've got my 7 year old daughter started on it and she's having a ball.

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Re:Ask HN: What gift to teach a 7 year-old programming? by lylejohnson on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @05:21PM (#1984893)
I might be able to coax his parents into installing Python on one of their MacBooks for that purpose. Of course that may lead to him wanting his own MacBook next Christmas. ;)

So does your daughter work out the programs in IDLE? That's very cool, and encouraging to hear. (This is one of the reasons why I wish we lived closer to my brother and his family, so that it's something the nephew and I could work on together).

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