Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how)

Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how) by roland35 on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:36AM (#39702197)

I am not really actively teaching them, but I am providing some resources like books. My older son (8) enjoys playing around with Scratch. I think it's great and at this age it's just good to experiment.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how) by actfrench on Thursday March 14, 2024 @07:24AM (#39702482)

Super. Would you be willing to share some of the books you're using?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how) by roland35 on Friday March 15, 2024 @01:55PM (#39718668)

I like this book for scratch: https://usborne.com/us/quicklinks/quicklink/15338-coding-for...

And this one for Python: https://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Prog...

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Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how) by actfrench on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:06AM (#39733239)

Fantastic. Thank you so much!

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Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to code? (and how) by useresd on Friday March 15, 2024 @02:59PM (#39719412)

Excellent. I am also encouraging 7 years old kid to play around with Scratch. He seems to enjoy the block coding. It actually started to make sense for him. He know knows when to use loops and why to use them.

The only problem is that he ran out of projects or ideas to implement in scratch. So, I bought him Minecraft Education Edition, which actually have support for Block Coding to more a robot around.

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