<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">My son (age 10) and I are learning Python together on <a href="https://www.codecademy.com/" target="_blank">https://www.codecademy.com/</a> here and there. They have a bunch of languages there with a very similar style to <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank">https://www.khanacademy.org/</a> . 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 <a href="http://bitsandbricks.no/2014/01/19/getting-started-with-python-on-ev3/">Python for Mindstorm</a>. Also, then we can get rid of this last Windows machine in the house. =)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><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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