What Language for a kid

[Alan Johnson]

My son (age 10) and I are learning Python together on
https://www.codecademy.com/ here and there.  They have a bunch of languages
there with a very similar style to https://www.khanacademy.org/ .   We have
not finished the course yet, so I don't know if it will get advanced enough
for my preferences, but it is great for beginner programmers.  He has years
of experience with Mindstorm GUI programming, and that is a great intro to
basic programing concepts because it has programming instructions that are
just like building Legos, but I agree with others that is not very
representative of programming in general; it is down right painful to debug
among other shortcomings.  So I'm hoping get him to switch to Python for
Mindstorm
<http://bitsandbricks.no/2014/01/19/getting-started-with-python-on-ev3/>.
Also, then we can get rid of this last Windows machine in the house. =)


On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:24 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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