On iOS I would suggest he might like a look at a few apps; Pythonista (Editorial, by the same developer) or the new "Automator for iOS", namely "Workflow"
All of these have elements of programming. Stephen We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. > On 15 Dec 2014, at 21:14, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > My 12-year old has learned a lot from Minecraft -- I imagine he has > encounterd it? you have to use it as an excuse to drip-feed things like > scientific knowledge, looking up things on wikipedia eg about basalt. But it > gets them thinking about engineering and 'real' tasks, requires what you > could call project management etc > >> On 15 Dec 2014, at 20:57, mac98aop wrote: >> >> Hope this is ok on SMUG, but hoped some of you might know... >> >> My 8 year old is mad on computers and games. I know, I know, most children >> are, but he is definitely more keen and 'wired that way' than most his >> friends. >> >> Any tips on ways to get him in to something more edifying than the Wii? Is >> the Raspberry Pi too complicated a beast? Or is there an iPad App that >> would help him. I've googled, but would love any wisdom! >> >> I sadly missed out on Apple's in store CODE events for children last >> Saturday. >> >> Perhaps reply off-list if I'm breaking the SMUG parameters. >> >> Thanks all >> >> Adam >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
