Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming?

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 9, 2015 @09:20AM from the first-you-must-erase-his-mind dept.

THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes I'm a professional programmer and have been programming since I was a small boy. I want to introduce this to my 7-year-son but know nothing about teaching this to children. Since he enjoys Roblox and Minecraft very much, and knows how to use computers already, I suspect teaching him to write his own small games would be a good starting point. I'm aware of lists like this one, but it's quite overwhelming. There are so many choices that I am overwhelmed where to start. Anyone in the Slashdot in the community have recent hands-on experience with such tools/systems that he/she would recommend?

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Re: Minecraft Mods by jblues · 2015-04-09 11:49 · Score: 0, Troll

>You fucking lie like a rug. Link to his code or its >total fucking bull you fucking liar asshole. The thirteen year old is more of a SlashDot kind of person.

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