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When people use scratch with their kids, what tutorials do they follow? Do they try and figure things out from first principles, or are their popular content creators who make stuff? How do people transition their kids from scratch to Python? From my experience teaching, it seems like it's really hard for kids to make that transition.
When people use scratch with their kids, what tutorials do they follow? Do they try and figure things out from first principles, or are their popular content creators who make stuff? How do people transition their kids from scratch to Python? From my experience teaching, it seems like it's really hard for kids to make that transition.
Finally, out of 3 kids one is interested! Now what do I do?! Python, I'm assuming, but following what curriculum?
Anybody remember Logo? That turtle graphics program? That's what they taught us at school. Programming for kids surely has changed a lot since then.
Anybody remember Logo? That turtle graphics program? That's what they taught us at school. Programming for kids surely has changed a lot since then.
What was this program?
He made a story where cats jump up and down 25 times and then walk away. He recorded sound effects for the cats that repeated as the cats jump.
It’s simple but offers so much more of a creative outlet than games/educational apps aimed at his age group.
https://www.idtech.com/blog/scratch-vs-python
Looking around, it also seems possible to set up your own Scratch server, which is comparable to setting up a Minecraft server, then you could use Python to pound away via the Scratch API (which is otherwise disallowed by the Scratch team on the public Scratch servers, reasonably enough). That might be a good project for older kids (teenagers).