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Best way to learn kids to code is Scratch imho. My 4 year old daughter loves it http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://scratch.mit.edu/

andresmh 15y ago
what does she make with Scratch?
- sunkencity 15y ago
  Utterly chaotic programs consisting of 100 degree turns, nudges, lots of voice samples of her screaming her name :)
yardie 15y ago
Your 4yo knows scratch? I'm trying to get my son interested in programming but it's been frustrating for both of us. He is a lefty in house of righties so the mouse never works the way he wants it to. If he doesn't make a good programmer he'll be a master mechanic. I've given him a precision screw driver set and he's gotten quite good at taking things apart. I'll give scratch another try in a year or so.
- sunkencity 15y ago
  The interface is really a bit too hard, generally she have to explain to me when she want to do something more complicated, but she can drag and drop stuff from the sidebar to the active area and rearrange the stuff there, also entering numbers is fun generally she wants all numbers to be at 100. I would really want to have a scratch version for the ipad. The graphical visualization of programming is excellent, but it's really too complicated with a mouse. Also, painting with a mouse really sucks when compared to painting with a touchscreen. Looking at her with the ipad, the mouse really feels like a legacy device.
- Mz 15y ago
  He is a lefty in house of righties so the mouse never works the way he wants it to. You didn't state your son's age, but if he is around 3 or 4yo and you have a roller-ball mouse, it might help to teach him to put the mouse in his lap and manipulate the roller ball with his thumb. The scale of the mouse has a small child moving their entire arm instead of just hand/wrist motions. This was something my youngest son did when he was 2 or 3 and it made computers much more accessible for him and he became much less dependent on me doing stuff for him.

andresmh 15y ago

what does she make with Scratch?

sunkencity 15y ago
Utterly chaotic programs consisting of 100 degree turns, nudges, lots of voice samples of her screaming her name :)

yardie 15y ago

Your 4yo knows scratch? I'm trying to get my son interested in programming but it's been frustrating for both of us. He is a lefty in house of righties so the mouse never works the way he wants it to. If he doesn't make a good programmer he'll be a master mechanic. I've given him a precision screw driver set and he's gotten quite good at taking things apart. I'll give scratch another try in a year or so.

sunkencity 15y ago
The interface is really a bit too hard, generally she have to explain to me when she want to do something more complicated, but she can drag and drop stuff from the sidebar to the active area and rearrange the stuff there, also entering numbers is fun generally she wants all numbers to be at 100. I would really want to have a scratch version for the ipad. The graphical visualization of programming is excellent, but it's really too complicated with a mouse. Also, painting with a mouse really sucks when compared to painting with a touchscreen. Looking at her with the ipad, the mouse really feels like a legacy device.
Mz 15y ago
He is a lefty in house of righties so the mouse never works the way he wants it to. You didn't state your son's age, but if he is around 3 or 4yo and you have a roller-ball mouse, it might help to teach him to put the mouse in his lap and manipulate the roller ball with his thumb. The scale of the mouse has a small child moving their entire arm instead of just hand/wrist motions. This was something my youngest son did when he was 2 or 3 and it made computers much more accessible for him and he became much less dependent on me doing stuff for him.