[HN Gopher] TurboWarp Desktop ___________________________________________________________________ TurboWarp Desktop Author : varun_ch Score : 27 points Date : 2022-11-17 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (desktop.turbowarp.org) (TXT) w3m dump (desktop.turbowarp.org) | bradgessler wrote: | How are HN parents teaching their kids to code? I've got a 6 yo | who I think might be ready to start learning and am curious how | you've done it. What age is a good age to start? How do kids age | out of languages/runtimes into other languages/runtimes? | sudobash1 wrote: | When I was that age in the early 00's, my father set me up with | an emulated Tandy Color Computer 2. He figured that he had | learned on it, so why not his son. Later on he bought me a real | one (and some cassette tapes that he had used with his. They | still worked). | | There is a real magic, interacting with a computer like that. | It had almost no functionality outside of what I could program | on it. It had simple graphics, sound, and tons of hidden | functionality that was just a POKE away. (For instance POKE | 65495,0 would increase the clock speed). | | Going from BASIC to my first "real" programing language was a | mind bend. It took a lot of experimentation for me to wrap my | mind around variable scoping. | rahimnathwani wrote: | My son turned 6 recently. You might find this doc helpful: | | https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qNHqaZ9CdVwQsh4sEslf3GG... | | The things my son has used or is using: | | * Osmo Coding Awbie (requires Osmo hardware) | | * Osmo Coding Jam (requires Osmo hardware) | | * Scratch Jr. To use Scratch Jr effectively, it's good to have | a book or a guide. I chose this set of example exercises: | https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593278993 | | * Code.org (Course A or Course C) | otoburb wrote: | Depends on the child, but started with Scratch with mine for | the visuals. I've heard good things about Swift Playgrounds | recently too but it was rougher a few years ago. One thing that | I'm not doing is pushing this too heavily as there are so many | other potential interests they could develop and (I believe | that) the set of STEM options are wider these days -- excepting | chemistry kits which all seem to have been neutered. | jhot wrote: | My kids aren't old enough yet, but I started my nephew out with | a raspberry pi Kano kit (wouldn't recommend Kano anymore as | they went all in on crypto instead of education). But it had a | couple things that he somewhat understood. Some nice Scratch | tutorials to build games that he found fun. There's also | bashcrawl which turns basic unix commands into an adventure | game. At 9 his reading comprehension wasn't quite there to | grasp it without a lot of help from me. | | I think I'll focus on talking through decision making logic | with my kids until they can read decently and then we can try | some Scratch and other simple programming concepts. | soferio wrote: | I set up a raspberry pi to auto boot into Commodore 64 mode | with a BASIC command line. It was a fantastic start, there is | something magical about that experience. The boy then shifted | to scratch and also uses REPLIT. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-17 23:00 UTC)