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

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 The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:42PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:42PM (#271389) Homepage Journal

    There's also a very Scratch-like assortment of Minecraft themed lessons over at code.org [code.org] build by one of the Minecraft devs. Kept an 8 and 10 yo pair busy an entire Saturday around my house.

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