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Introducing Programming to a Child

posted by martyb on Thursday December 03 2015, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-introductions dept.

Justin Case writes:

My 9 year old girl has expressed an interest in learning to program. Of course I want something that will give her short term rewards, but still teach solid skills. I know this question gets asked from time to time on various forums but I wanted to get some opinions from the good people of SN.

Christmas is coming... she's (for now) a Windows user... is there something you'd recommend as a gift?

Thanks for your ideas.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bootsy on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:19PM

    by bootsy (3440) on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:19PM (#271326)

    My 10 yeard old started off on scratch but she much prefers python. She likes taking example programs and modifying them to do different things. When I was her age I learnt Sinclair Spectrum BASIC but Python seems a lot better compared to that.

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