Hello, I've had reasonably good responses putting at disposal of my kids the MicroWorlds products (JR and advanced, especially the first one), but they were 6 and 9. MicroWorlds JR is completely visual and allows to create small animated cartoons with sound effects; it is a good training ground on causes & effects, logical conditions and such. Possibly you could operate it and facilitate, but I never tried that.
Once grown up, there is also free software from Carnegie Mellon, produced by the group of late Randy Pausch (Alice and especially Storytelling Alice). Kids can be very enjoyable and rewarding in these aspects :-) Have a good day, Marco On Sep 29, 2:34 pm, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > my son is 4 and just started school. He cannot read and write as such but > can point to the letters that make up his name and he can do some addition > (as long as the answer is not greater than 10). > > He's incredibly curious about daddy on the computer and is quite comfortable > with a mouse and playing simple flash games in the browser. > > I really want to spend time with him learning more about computers and > wanted people's advice on what they have done with their own kids at this > point. > > I've heard about things like Arduino, lego mindstorms, raspberry > pie...perhaps too young? What about some sort of programming (maybe > visually)? > > Thanks > > Rakesh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
