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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: 3, Interesting) by Zinho on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:55PM

    by Zinho (759) on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:55PM (#271437)

    One of my favorite Koans from the Codeless Code touches on this: Anantha's Fountain. [thecodelesscode.com]

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