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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:55PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:55PM (#271336)

    It's only time / money - for the same approximate cost, you can configure a vanilla Raspberry Pi 2 to do everything the Kano does, with the keyboard of your choice.

    Unfortunately, the keyboard I'm typing on costs $90 by itself, if I felt my kids needed this one, then the budget would have to increase a bit - but you can certainly get competent keyboards (wired or wireless) for $20 or so - free if your willing to scrounge.

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