What Language for a kid

[Tom Buskey]

You can get the Kano OS separate from the RasPi bundle.  If you already
have a keyboard, mouse, HDMI TV (or HDMI to VGA + monitor) and an SD card,
you have the pieces already.

There are UK based PI magazines (MagPI is online I think) with Scratch and
other programming tutorials aimed at kids & kid like geeks.

FWIW, Scratch came out of the Logo work & both are MIT projects.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Kenny Lussier <klussier at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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