Re: What Language for a kid

2015-12-24 Thread Brian St. Pierre
I just recently discovered MIT App Inventor -- http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/front.html It's Scratch embedded into a web-based environment that updates an app running on your Android device in real-time. I've only played with it for about 10 minutes, but it "just worked" to get a quick

Re: What Language for a kid

2015-12-24 Thread Paul Beaudet
I've never used labview or the newest version off mindstorm, so honestly these programs could be completely relevant I could be completely out of touch. The big point is, making programing accessible is great if it can be used practically and the programer identifies him or herself as having

Re: What Language for a kid

2015-12-24 Thread Alan Johnson
My son (age 10) and I are learning Python together on https://www.codecademy.com/ here and there. They have a bunch of languages there with a very similar style to https://www.khanacademy.org/ . We have not finished the course yet, so I don't know if it will get advanced enough for my