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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 TK on Friday December 04 2015, @02:48PM

    by TK (2760) on Friday December 04 2015, @02:48PM (#271797)

    I fully endorse this product.

    Really, I would recommend the mindstorms block programming. Very helpful for teaching concepts to a child that doesn't have the attention span for proper syntax (but can learn that blue blocks take green blocks as inputs). Add in that the kid will see their program play out in the real world, which I think is the single best way to make someone want to program, and not just because Dad does it.

    Plus it's legos, everybody loves legos.

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