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Scratch from MIT is designed to help with this: http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ For more formal programming Processing is a great learning envi
by Gelada 16y ago
Scratch from MIT is designed to help with this: http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://scratch.mit.edu/
For more formal programming Processing is a great learning enviroment: http://processing.org/ http://processing.org/
In both I would say the best method is to find challenges your son wants to undertake for himself. Learning to explore, play and fail is the way forward.
- rst 16y agoFWIW, my roughly eight-year-old nephew is an avid Scratch enthusiast. A couple of other things that might be worth exploring are the Android App Inventor (a Scratch-like environment for programming Android phones), and Hackety Hack (a Ruby-based environment for programming very simple webapps).
- inovica 16y agoThanks! I'll look at both of these
- inovica 16y agoI'd never heard of scratch but that looks very interesting for an initial foray. Thanks for the links and taking the time out