Excellent, but I keep dying!!!
My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
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Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I was into pokemon as a kid and wanted to make a "fan site", which is what got me learning (just to date how far back this was)! This cannot be used to date you. Kids these days (and presumably anywhere in between) are still into pokemon. Just today it’s Koraidon and Miraidon.
It isn't the interest in Pokémon that dates them, it's wanting to make a webpage for it. :)
Yea exactly. Fan sites. What a concept!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#493I'm sure you've gotten a lot of good feedback, but a personal message for your kid: I am well into my adulthood, but I started programming from a similar place way back when. I was probably 12-13 when I was self-studying HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Today the web tech stack is way more complicated than it was when I was a kid, but its also way more capable. You can do so much with it now that was a dream - I was into pokemon…
I was thinking HtDP is better at teaching for people with no pre-knowledge than SICP; obviously both are very similar. Do you have an opinion?
I haven’t read htdp, but I looked through it. It seemed more of a “teach to program” than a “teach you to think about programs at a whole new level”. But HTDP didn’t exist when I was working on sicp.