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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 VanessaE on Friday December 04 2015, @12:18AM

    by VanessaE (3396) <vanessa.e.dannenberg@gmail.com> on Friday December 04 2015, @12:18AM (#271627) Journal

    As long as you're bringing up Lua in the context of Minecraft, I might suggest checking out Minetest instead (http://minetest.net), as its game content and modding system is based around Lua (has been for a few years), and being open source, it gives the budding programmer a chance to try modifying the engine itself (via C++) and sending those modifications back upstream, if they get tired of Lua.

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