On 05/27/2016 02:52 PM, Jay West wrote: > > At the risk of being flamed... I'll mention that if the kid is more > visually driven, you might try introducing him to an Arduino Uno or > similar. Something he can see the results of his code in lights and > dials.
One of my fondest memories of my long-deceased father was when he took a plank of pine and built a 1-tube radio with me. I think it was a 1G4G (triode). We wound and shellacked the coils. Earphones and A and B batteries. It was wonderful--and I was hooked. I don't know if ARM or AVR BASICs are available, but you can purchase one-board MCUs (like the Maple mini) for next to nothing. I think that getting that going with BASIC or any other language would be a great adventure for a young boy. After all, in a couple of years, he'll be teaching *you* how to use a PC. --Chuck
