My 5th grade daughter is on Spring Break this week. I'd really like to expose her to the basics of coding, and start planting some seeds. Any resources?
Ask HN: Are there any children's websites that teach coding or coding concepts?
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Re: Ask HN: Are there any children's websites that teach coding or coding concepts?
#2Just re-introduced my kids (8 and 10) to Scratch:
Drag and drop visual programming. Its good for kids because it allows them to quickly create things that they're used to seeing/using (graphics, animations, sounds), but still uses real programming concepts.
At 5 you're going to have to sit with her and help guide her on concepts, but she'll pick it up quick.
Edit: Err, 5th grade, I see, not 5yo... sorry.
Re: Ask HN: Are there any children's websites that teach coding or coding concepts?
#3I always thought the game "lightbot" might be good as part of a intro course.
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#4My daughter 5/6th grade was using Khan Academy:
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#5robomind.net : I was able to teach my 4 year old daughter and keep her interest with this simple free application.
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#6My daughter 5/6th grade was using Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tutorials/programming-basics
Khan Academy is great. I was teaching my cousin (12) when I was home for Christmas and even my niece (7) was learning writing her own snippets to draw smiley faces and such. Definitely is a good resource for teaching the basics of programing (variables, functions, syntax, etc).
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#7Re: Ask HN: Are there any children's websites that teach coding or coding concepts?
#8My daughter 5/6th grade was using Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tutorials/programming-basics
Yeah, the Khan Academy stuff was specifically targeted towards teaching children. I'd say it's a good place to start.
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#9There's also [Hackety-Hack](http://hackety.com/), which was made to help introduce kids to programming with ruby. It uses a DSL I believe. I'm sad to say though, it looks like it hasn't seen much activity recently (only 2 blog posts total and last commit was a year ago).
Re: Ask HN: Are there any children's websites that teach coding or coding concepts?
#10If you're in the NYC area, you should come to our next CoderDojo session (free programming classes for kids, I'm the NYC co-founder): http://coderdojonyc.com/
If you're somewhere else, definitely take a look at http://coderdojo.com/ and see if there is any Dojo near you.