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Are you aware of Nintendo Game Builder Garage? [1,2] My youngest daughter was begging me to get this for her when it came out. She spent ages in earlier years
by chalst 5y ago
Are you aware of Nintendo Game Builder Garage? [1,2]
My youngest daughter was begging me to get this for her when it came out. She spent ages in earlier years trying to figure out doing stuff with the MIT Scratch offline editor. She's not super keen on text-based programming yet (my elder daughter is and solidly resists my typed FP propaganda in favour of hand-typed OO programming), but these kind of visual programming environments do teach real agent-based algorithmic concepts.
I'm not saying your advice isn't better than something along these lines, but it's good to be flexible in terms of what advice you offer and be encouraging rather than prescriptive.
[1]: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/game-builder-garage-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/game-builder-garage-sw...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058300
- vanderZwan 5y agoPlayfool recently had a nice video with suggestions on how Game Builder Garage combines really well with earlier Labo kits. So if you have any of those lying around.. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTJH11qXtys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTJH11qXtys
- agentwiggles 5y agoI'm vicariously proud of your children :) Out of curiosity, how old are they, and when did you start them on programming related stuff? I have a 5yo and 7yo boy. The older one is just starting to develop an interest in creating things, and recently took an unsuccessful (but still educational) stab at learning Blender.
- chalst 5y ago18 and 15. I started them on Scratch about 9 years ago, so your elder was about the same age as my younger when we started, and I kept coming back to its model to explain ideas about algorithms.