My son (age 10) and I are learning Python together on https://www.codecademy.com/ here and there. They have a bunch of languages there with a very similar style to https://www.khanacademy.org/ . We have not finished the course yet, so I don't know if it will get advanced enough for my preferences, but it is great for beginner programmers. He has years of experience with Mindstorm GUI programming, and that is a great intro to basic programing concepts because it has programming instructions that are just like building Legos, but I agree with others that is not very representative of programming in general; it is down right painful to debug among other shortcomings. So I'm hoping get him to switch to Python for Mindstorm <http://bitsandbricks.no/2014/01/19/getting-started-with-python-on-ev3/>. Also, then we can get rid of this last Windows machine in the house. =)
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:24 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/ > > -- Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com Date Format PSA <http://xkcd.com/1179/>
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