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Ask HN: Resources to teach programming to my 10yr old brother

8 points by Justen 14y ago

Over the past year I've seen a handful of what looked to be really great resources for teaching younger kids how to program, but I never took the time to save any of them away. But now, I recently asked my little brother if he would want to learn, and he seemed genuinely interested. Would HN help me out in aggregating resources I can use to teach him?

boothead 14y ago
Here are some links I've been collecting for when my daughter is old enough: http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2012/10/04/teaching-my-5-year-old-daughter-to-code/ http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2012/10/04/teaching-my-5-year-... The Scratch programming environment for kids: http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://hackaday.com/2012/10/31/olpc-tablet-distribution-proves-concepts-laid-out-in-the-diamond-age/ http://hackaday.com/2012/10/31/olpc-tablet-distribution-prov... If you're in the UK: http://www.codeclub.org.uk/ http://www.codeclub.org.uk/
brudgers 14y ago
Alice is reasonably cool. www.alice.org Touchdevelop in the browser is a more recent option: https://www.touchdevelop.com/app/ https://www.touchdevelop.com/app/
bink-lynch 14y ago
Khan Academy recently released a computer science section: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs http://www.khanacademy.org/cs
ronyeh 14y ago
If you want to walk through the lessons with him, you can check out: http://learningcorona.com/ http://learningcorona.com/ http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/ http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/ Lua is a simple language and might be good for picking up basic concepts. Corona has an unlimited free trial, and you can build simple games with very little code. The result will run in the Corona simulator (which will look like an Android or iPhone).
tamersalama 14y ago
Kids Ruby - haven't used it (yet) - http://kidsruby.com/ http://kidsruby.com/
unimpressive 14y ago
http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html Helped me learn python.
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8 points by Justen 14y ago

boothead 14y ago

Here are some links I've been collecting for when my daughter is old enough: http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2012/10/04/teaching-my-5-year-old-daughter-to-code/ http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2012/10/04/teaching-my-5-year-... The Scratch programming environment for kids: http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://hackaday.com/2012/10/31/olpc-tablet-distribution-proves-concepts-laid-out-in-the-diamond-age/ http://hackaday.com/2012/10/31/olpc-tablet-distribution-prov... If you're in the UK: http://www.codeclub.org.uk/ http://www.codeclub.org.uk/

brudgers 14y ago

Alice is reasonably cool. www.alice.org Touchdevelop in the browser is a more recent option: https://www.touchdevelop.com/app/ https://www.touchdevelop.com/app/

bink-lynch 14y ago

Khan Academy recently released a computer science section: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs http://www.khanacademy.org/cs

ronyeh 14y ago

If you want to walk through the lessons with him, you can check out: http://learningcorona.com/ http://learningcorona.com/ http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/ http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/ Lua is a simple language and might be good for picking up basic concepts. Corona has an unlimited free trial, and you can build simple games with very little code. The result will run in the Corona simulator (which will look like an Android or iPhone).

tamersalama 14y ago

Kids Ruby - haven't used it (yet) - http://kidsruby.com/ http://kidsruby.com/

unimpressive 14y ago

http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html Helped me learn python.

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