llindseymomoffour Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Looking for a good computer programming curr. for my 9 year old. Anybody have experience with some that are good? I seen the one on HSBC and was wondering if there are others out there. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NotAVampireLvr Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 I'm curious as well. I remember being 7 or 8 and programming on our old Commodore 64... you used to be able to buy books that had pages and pages of code that would create computer games. It was great fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
provenance61 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Our son took a couple of intro courses in Scratch programming at libraries when he was 8 and 9. This is a very simple, visual drag and drop language which is lots of fun. There is also a Scratch for Teens book -- he is working through the book, it has lots of exercises etc. (not just for teens, we checked first and it's good for ages as young as 8 or 9). Scratch is downloadable from MIT, no charge. He just turned 10 and is really into Scratch and now learning a somewhat similar language called Alice. Amy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 My 10 year old is finishing up with Scratch for Teens and is writing his own Scratch video game. He also started using the site KidsRuby which is awesome and we are really happy to have access to it! And it's free too!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 :bigear::bigear: Dds are working on Scratch and NXT. I hope to introduce Storytelling Alice & Game Maker's Apprentice. Ds is self-teaching Python, C, C++. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 My DD loves Scratch and is playing some with Storytelling Alice. She's learned a lot from seeing the projects others have done and taking them apart. It helps that Daddy is a software engineer, so when she gets stuck, he can easily look at the code and make suggestions, even though he really hasn't played with Scratch or Alice at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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