What Language for a kid

[Brian St. Pierre]

I just recently discovered MIT App Inventor --
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/front.html

It's Scratch embedded into a web-based environment that updates an app
running on your Android device in real-time. I've only played with it for
about 10 minutes, but it "just worked" to get a quick "hello"
text-to-speech app running on my device.

--
Brian St. Pierre

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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