Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my child?

Re:Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my child? by Minor49er on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:14PM (#29914131)

You should definitely focus on quick feedback early on to get some basics about programming down. The specifics can come later. I would recommend something even simpler than JS or Rust at first, like Scratch, FreeBASIC, or PICO-8 (PICO-8 is $15, but may be well worth it)

https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://www.freebasic.net/ https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html

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Re:Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my child? by pull_my_finger on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:07AM (#29917086)

FWIW Pico-8 uses a modified version of Lua as it's programming language. I would second that (Lua) as a good first choice as that knowledge can be reused in a lot of other kid-friendly environments.

Edit: ...and later other more practical general purpose programming environments.

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