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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 HiThere on Friday December 04 2015, @03:20AM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 04 2015, @03:20AM (#271678) Journal

    FWIW there's an easy transition from Scratch to Squeak using e-toys to Squeak to any computer language you want (though Python and Ruby are the easiest transitions).

    OTOH, I haven't looked at e-toys for a long time, so it may no longer be maintained.

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