Programming books for Children: 9 - 11 age group
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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for programming books for children. I want to get my son into programming as he shows an interest in it, but most books are a little dry due to the target market. I grew up using Usbourne books teaching Basic, with the book showing a listing and then various minor corrections for the BBC, Vic20, Apricot, Spectrum & CBM - which I then had to correct to make them work on an Amstrad CPC. However, these aren't really that viable these days... Anyway enough nostalgia - I'm not too fussed whether it is PHP, Java, C#, Python, etc. I do have a Raspberry Pi so I thought Python might be a good bet as he could transfer the programs from the laptop to the Pi. I must add that is a Windows 8 laptop, just in case that influences any answers. Apologies if this topic has already been covered in a thread elsewhere, but I couldn't find one talking about programming books. Any suggestions will be gratefully received.
Adrian Breaking code since '85.
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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for programming books for children. I want to get my son into programming as he shows an interest in it, but most books are a little dry due to the target market. I grew up using Usbourne books teaching Basic, with the book showing a listing and then various minor corrections for the BBC, Vic20, Apricot, Spectrum & CBM - which I then had to correct to make them work on an Amstrad CPC. However, these aren't really that viable these days... Anyway enough nostalgia - I'm not too fussed whether it is PHP, Java, C#, Python, etc. I do have a Raspberry Pi so I thought Python might be a good bet as he could transfer the programs from the laptop to the Pi. I must add that is a Windows 8 laptop, just in case that influences any answers. Apologies if this topic has already been covered in a thread elsewhere, but I couldn't find one talking about programming books. Any suggestions will be gratefully received.
Adrian Breaking code since '85.