You can get the Kano OS separate from the RasPi bundle. If you already have a keyboard, mouse, HDMI TV (or HDMI to VGA + monitor) and an SD card, you have the pieces already.
There are UK based PI magazines (MagPI is online I think) with Scratch and other programming tutorials aimed at kids & kid like geeks. FWIW, Scratch came out of the Logo work & both are MIT projects. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Kenny Lussier <kluss...@gmail.com> wrote: > She did do a little with the Hour of Code thing last year, and I had > thought that her interest had dropped off after that. Come to find out, she > is very much still interested, just discouraged by the lack of exposure in > school. > > I have to say, I have never heard of Scratch. There are a lot of people > suggesting it, so I should probably look into it ;-) It looks like a good > fundamentals > > I'm not a coder, so a lot of this is new to me. I'm a scripter. I do bash, > some perl, some python... a little bit of LOLCode (no, really, you *CAN* > haz VAR!!). I miss Logo. And Basic. > > Thanks for all of the advice. I think I'll probably point her at Scratch. > and see where she goes with it. If she really does enjoy it, then maybe a > Kano is in her future, or possibly a Pi.... > > > > Thanks, > Kenny > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Matt Minuti <matt.min...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Also, did she do any hour of code stuff? That just happened recently, so >> perhaps that served as inspiration and could help guide the quest. Or maybe >> she just heard the rhetoric around it and thought it would be neat? >> On Dec 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Kenny Lussier" <kluss...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> My daughter has expressed an interest in learning to code. It's a >>> non-specific, very general interest. She doesn't have a specific area of >>> interest that she wants to learn (UI, game development, HPC, etc.), she >>> just want to learn how to code. >>> >>> What do people think is the best language for a 12yr old to learn? What >>> is most flexible to use for different purposes? What tools are out there to >>> teach a kid to code? Code Academy and the like seem to be a little dry and >>> never yielded wonderful results for most of the adults I know, so other >>> ideas would be welcome. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kenny >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >>> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >>> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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