LOAD81 is good for this purpose too, thanks to antirez:
Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
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Re: Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
#22Beautiful story very inspiring thanks for sharing it with us.
Is it? I just get a blank page.
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#23Wait, he didn't start her with jQuery first?! ;)
Re: Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
#24LOAD81 is good for this purpose too, thanks to antirez: http://github.com/anitrez/load81
typo in link, fixed: https://github.com/antirez/load81 (and thanks!)
Re: Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
#25I decided to teach my niece how to program at the age of 10 as well. She had already just naturally gotten the hang of the computer since she was about 6 (though I had to reverse the mouse buttons because originally her small hands couldn't left click). At 10 years old she was already telling my sister-in-law how to do things, was a near master of google-fu and had all the game sites she liked bookmarked. I wanted to…
DS Game Maker looks suspiciously similar to Game Maker. Have YoYo Games not tried to sue them?
Re: Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
#26Another great resource for teaching kids programming that I haven't seen mentioned in the discussion is Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/). My daughter (just turned 11) has been playing with it for a couple years now and it's pretty amazing the stuff she can create. The best part is that the scratch website hosts projects for free, so she can share them with friends and family. It's a great introduction to programming concepts.
As far as learning HTML/JavaScript, my daughter also liked Codecademy, and went through several tutorials there. She would get bogged down a little on syntax (Scratch is very visual), but I can't imagine an easier way to learn HTML/JavaScript.
Re: Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
#27I decided to teach my niece how to program at the age of 10 as well. She had already just naturally gotten the hang of the computer since she was about 6 (though I had to reverse the mouse buttons because originally her small hands couldn't left click). At 10 years old she was already telling my sister-in-law how to do things, was a near master of google-fu and had all the game sites she liked bookmarked. I wanted to…
DS Game Maker looks suspiciously similar to Game Maker. Have YoYo Games not tried to sue them?
I don't think the interface itself is something that is originally Game Makers either - it's been done before.
Re: Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
#28Kudos to you, good sir. As a woman in Computer Science, I applaud all efforts to get girls interested in programming at a young age. It makes the university CS department much less intimidating to know beforehand what you're getting yourself into.
"What will I teach her next? We are going to build her own little startup." This does reinforce the post that was on here a few days ago about the liberal use of the term "startup"...
Re: Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.
#29I decided to teach my niece how to program at the age of 10 as well. She had already just naturally gotten the hang of the computer since she was about 6 (though I had to reverse the mouse buttons because originally her small hands couldn't left click). At 10 years old she was already telling my sister-in-law how to do things, was a near master of google-fu and had all the game sites she liked bookmarked. I wanted to…
Thanks for the DS Game Maker link, my nieces are all into NDS, I'll try it with them!
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#30The other day, out of the blue, my young niece starts telling me about Scratch (online visual programming site), and how she's written some stuff on it. She then proceeds to start telling me about other people, how they had done things wrong, and how she knew how to fix them.
I was so freaking proud. I had never tried to teach her to program because she's as hardheaded as I am. Trying to force it on her was doomed to failure. But because she discovered it, she bit in pretty good. She's playing at being a cheerleader now, but I can't help but think the experience will help her later, even if she never programs again.