<div dir="ltr">I just recently discovered MIT App Inventor -- <a href="http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/front.html">http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/front.html</a><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Brian St. Pierre</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Kenny Lussier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klussier@gmail.com" target="_blank">klussier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>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. <br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Kenny<br><br></div>
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