I have a older teen who's been programming for the last several years and is remarkably talented. His younger brother is now wanting to get going (10).
My older son started with JS, learned how to hate it, and moved on to Ruby (specifically Opal has a special place in his heart as far as isomorphic dev goes). From there he's worked with a number of other languages, including Racket. The nice thing about JS at the time was that he used Codecademy with their rapid turn around repl + visual results. After a good bit of discussion, it really seems that Racket mostly matches this need and provides an even superior foothold for one just starting. Initially I really thought that "Realm of Racket" would be an ideal springboard for him, but some reviews have made me think otherwise. Does anyone have a solid recommendation for starting kids off with Racket in 2017? Are there any kid-centric courses? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
