What Language for a kid

[Kenny Lussier]

She did do a little with the Hour of Code thing last year, and I had
thought that her interest had dropped off after that. Come to find out, she
is very much still interested, just discouraged by the lack of exposure in
school.

I have to say, I have never heard of Scratch. There are a lot of people
suggesting it, so I should probably look into it ;-) It looks like a good
fundamentals

I'm not a coder, so a lot of this is new to me. I'm a scripter. I do bash,
some perl, some python... a little bit of LOLCode (no, really, you *CAN*
haz VAR!!).  I miss Logo. And Basic.

Thanks for all of the advice. I think I'll probably point her at Scratch.
and see where she goes with it. If she really does enjoy it, then maybe a
Kano is in her future, or possibly a Pi....



Thanks,
Kenny


On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Matt Minuti <matt.minuti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, did she do any hour of code stuff? That just happened recently, so
> perhaps that served as inspiration and could help guide the quest. Or maybe
> she just heard the rhetoric around it and thought it would be neat?
> On Dec 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Kenny Lussier" <klussier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> My daughter has expressed an interest in learning to code. It's a
>> non-specific, very general interest. She doesn't have a specific area of
>> interest that she wants to learn (UI, game development, HPC, etc.), she
>> just want to learn how to code.
>>
>> What do people think is the best language for a 12yr old to learn? What
>> is most flexible to use for different purposes? What tools are out there to
>> teach a kid to code? Code Academy and the like seem to be a little dry and
>> never yielded wonderful results for most of the adults I know, so other
>> ideas would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kenny
>>
>>
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