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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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Introducing Programming to a Child
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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:51PM
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.
http://www.alice.org/ [alice.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:23PM
Alice is awesome. I showed it to my own daughter. It teaches a lot of programming concepts, step-by-step, without the child even known it. You're basically choreographing an ice skater with more and more complex instructions.