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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 aclarke on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:20PM

    by aclarke (2049) on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:20PM (#271374) Homepage

    My daughter's a couple years younger, but she really enjoys Kodable [kodable.com]. They use it at her school and she just loves it. I haven't really tried to get her "into programming" as I am happy for her to find her own way in life, but it turns out she really enjoys this stuff. Go figure.

    Maybe Kodable isn't hard-core enough for some people, or advanced enough for older kids, but it's been a great introduction for my daughter. I'll have to check out Scratch one of these days as a potential next step for her.

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