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My 11 year old son has been programming in Scratch for a few years, and kind of hit a dead end. So we recently bought him Sams Teach Yourself Mod Development fo
by sdegutis 11y ago
My 11 year old son has been programming in Scratch for a few years, and kind of hit a dead end. So we recently bought him Sams Teach Yourself Mod Development for Minecraft in 24 Hours. It goes straight into some pretty heavy Java, but with a lot of hand-holding. He's really loving it so far, and seems to be learning a lot and making good progress.
- ciroduran 11y agoThere's this Greenfoot (http://www.greenfoot.org/ http://www.greenfoot.org/) environment I've been hearing about. It has a visual interface that allows you to put sprites and assemble a game, but it also has Java foundations. It might be another option for that transition between a visual tool and a programming language.
- zappo2938 11y agoHave you tried Code Combat? [1] Or, Vim Adventures? [2] Of course, you might skip the vim because real programmers use emacs. [1] https://codecombat.com https://codecombat.com [2] http://vim-adventures.com/ http://vim-adventures.com/
- sdegutis 11y agoWe all know real programmers use butterflies. I've been letting my son focus on the code rather than the editor, so he's using Eclipse per the aforementioned book's recommendation.