What is a good free site for a child to learn simple coding?
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I have a small nephew that wants to learn coding (he is 9 years old). Where can I direct him for simple coding, web design, applications etc...? I hope the intelligentsia/gestalt can help me point him to a site that is useful.
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Kid's Corner[^] @ Beginning Developer Learning Centre[^] in MSDN is nice one. Small Basic[^] is recommended one. BTW I found many interesting sites in these SO threads. [ 1 ] | [ 2 ] | [ 3 ] | [ 4 ] | [ 5 ] | [ 6 ][^] | [ 7 ] | [ 8 ] | [ 9 ] | [ 10 ] | [ 11 ] | Most people suggested Alice[^] & Scratch[^] Free attachments Found some more interesting threads in SO What is a good programmi
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I have a small nephew that wants to learn coding (he is 9 years old). Where can I direct him for simple coding, web design, applications etc...? I hope the intelligentsia/gestalt can help me point him to a site that is useful.
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Wouldn't this have been best asked in the Lounge? It's not really about free tools.
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I have a small nephew that wants to learn coding (he is 9 years old). Where can I direct him for simple coding, web design, applications etc...? I hope the intelligentsia/gestalt can help me point him to a site that is useful.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
I vaguely recall a language called LOGO which had something to do with turtles drawing shapes on the screen. I think it was intended to be child-friendly, give them immediate visual feedback while not being too complicated to learn, that kind of thing.
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I have a small nephew that wants to learn coding (he is 9 years old). Where can I direct him for simple coding, web design, applications etc...? I hope the intelligentsia/gestalt can help me point him to a site that is useful.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Get started withGame Maker. There is a free version and tutorials.
"You get that on the big jobs."
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Wouldn't this have been best asked in the Lounge? It's not really about free tools.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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You might think that, but he would be down voted for asking a programming question. :confused: :laugh:
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I vaguely recall a language called LOGO which had something to do with turtles drawing shapes on the screen. I think it was intended to be child-friendly, give them immediate visual feedback while not being too complicated to learn, that kind of thing.
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Kid's Corner[^] @ Beginning Developer Learning Centre[^] in MSDN is nice one. Small Basic[^] is recommended one. BTW I found many interesting sites in these SO threads. [ 1 ] | [ 2 ] | [ 3 ] | [ 4 ] | [ 5 ] | [ 6 ][^] | [ 7 ] | [ 8 ] | [ 9 ] | [ 10 ] | [ 11 ] | Most people suggested Alice[^] & Scratch[^] Free attachments Found some more interesting threads in SO What is a good programmi
I used Alice in college and it was so buggy it made me :(( Had that been my first programming language, I can only imagine how frustrated I would have been using it. Though, it has been about 5 years since then, so hopefully they've fixed that stuff.
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
the first "programming language" I learned
The first programming language I learned was FORTRAN. You wrote it out on a piece of paper and gave it to a bunch of women sitting in a room, who came back to you the following day with a stack of different coloured punch cards ("Don't drop them again like you did last time, dearie, ha ha") which you handed over to a very important man called an Operator ("No you can't come into the computer room, only fully trained people are allowed to touch The Computer, it's very expensive you know") who loaded them for you. A few hours later you were handed a pile of paper covered with arcane symbols and gibberish and you would then spend the next few days trying to figure out why your program didn't work so that you could start all over again. Kids today just don't know how to have fun.
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I have a small nephew that wants to learn coding (he is 9 years old). Where can I direct him for simple coding, web design, applications etc...? I hope the intelligentsia/gestalt can help me point him to a site that is useful.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
I taught myself coding when I was 14. Was volunteering in my public library for the summer and saw a magazine have an ad for one of those community college schools (vo-tech) that say "Learn computer programming and get a high paying job! Make your own Windows Applications" (back then, in 1994, Windows Applications were all the rage, because Windows 3.0 and 3.1 were all the shizz and we were just about to have Win95 sprung on us). So I just saw Visual C++ 1.0 in a box on the shelf of the local CompUSA and begged my parents and they bought it for me (Visual C++ 1.0 cost something like $79 back then, if I remember) So I just took the manuals (hard copy print books!) to bed with me and in six months, bam! I had finished the Scribble tutorial. :-) Ahhh, those were the days...I mean, can you imagine! Printed manuals heee heee Brian
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
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I taught myself coding when I was 14. Was volunteering in my public library for the summer and saw a magazine have an ad for one of those community college schools (vo-tech) that say "Learn computer programming and get a high paying job! Make your own Windows Applications" (back then, in 1994, Windows Applications were all the rage, because Windows 3.0 and 3.1 were all the shizz and we were just about to have Win95 sprung on us). So I just saw Visual C++ 1.0 in a box on the shelf of the local CompUSA and begged my parents and they bought it for me (Visual C++ 1.0 cost something like $79 back then, if I remember) So I just took the manuals (hard copy print books!) to bed with me and in six months, bam! I had finished the Scribble tutorial. :-) Ahhh, those were the days...I mean, can you imagine! Printed manuals heee heee Brian
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
Brian C Hart wrote:
So I just saw Visual C++ 1.0 in a box on the shelf of the local CompUSA and begged my parents and they bought it for me (Visual C++ 1.0 cost something like $79 back then, if I remember)
Ah, 14 floppy disks and the Que book (which was the only other reference) had samples that didn't work. Those were the days.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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I have a small nephew that wants to learn coding (he is 9 years old). Where can I direct him for simple coding, web design, applications etc...? I hope the intelligentsia/gestalt can help me point him to a site that is useful.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
