[wplug] Coding

[J Aaron Farr]

On Wed 18 Mar 2009 08:39, George Larson <george.g.larson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yesterday my 11 year old son, interested in ole' dad's work, asked about
> learning to code.  It is, of course, great that he is interested.
> Conversely, I have no clue where to begin.

I would stay away from Java, C or anything like that.  There's no reason
he needs to learn that now unless he seems to really want to.  Instead,
I would lean towards Python, Ruby, Smalltalk.

Someone else suggested Processing and that's a great idea.  Another
option is shoes:

  http://shoooes.net/

Which is written by "why the lucky stiff."  He started some work on
teaching programming to kids, but it's being revised right now:

  http://hacketyhack.net/

If he likes, games, then check out Scratch:

  http://scratch.mit.edu/

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