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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: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:42PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:42PM (#271426) Homepage

    Better than the opposite, demanding that she learn because it's "good for her" and having her end up smoking crack and exclusively seeing Black men 10 years later.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @06:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @06:53PM (#271494)

    What kind of crack are you doing that all men appear black to you?