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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 rob_on_earth on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:30PM

    by rob_on_earth (5485) on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:30PM (#271350) Homepage

    It was possible in older versions of Scratch on the Pi but was not straightforward, latest versions of Scratch do have full IO support.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:22PM (#271415)

    ok, good to know.