[wplug] Coding
terry mcintyre
terrymcintyre at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 18 12:18:56 EDT 2009
I concur with shoes, python, ruby. Java is too cluttered a language, I would think.
I'd toss in something like Haskell - especially if your son is interested in math. I'm engaged in a similar search, having a gifted grandson, now 7, who has been working with binary arithmetic, codebreaking, and a lot of other interesting math for a couple years now. I figure it's time to introduce him to a few programming concepts. He loves playing with numbers; augment his curiosity with a computer and he'll be in geek heaven, I'm sure.
Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>
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From: J Aaron Farr <farra at apache.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:02:50 AM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Coding
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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