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My two oldest kids have created plain html web pages with me. They run on my NAS so not available to the Internet. I try to teach different things to each of t
by eitland 9y ago
My two oldest kids have created plain html web pages with me.
They run on my NAS so not available to the Internet. I try to teach different things to each of them and hopefully they'll start copying and pasting.
I also created the "guess a number" game in Java with my oldest (~10 y.o.) recently. We started by writing comments explaining what would happen, then I filled in the code and we ran it and single stepped our way through it a few times.
I love the debugger as it helps new coders get a feeling for how the computer "thinks".
Java might seem like a weird language to teach kids but for all its verbosity and comments it ended at less than 50 LOC, is extremely readable and has really good support for single stepping, peeking into variables etc.
- drcongo 9y agoWe started by writing comments explaining what would happen, then I filled in the code and we ran it and single stepped our way through it a few times.` That's a nice idea.