If we stopped mass farming chickens where we would we get our cheap eggs. This is, of course, if everyone suddenly stopped eating chicken. Would we have old folks homes for chickens? I read that egg laying chickens are only permitted around a year of life.
If you don't mind giving the youngster a somewhat graphical and simple approach to programming, I highly suggest using Game Maker. It is a graphical game creation tool that also includes it's own scripting language that is very easy to get a hang of.
One of the more interesting aspects is that anything that is done with the icons or Drag and Drop items can be done through scripting creating a nice staged approach to learning programming.
It was created by a professor named Mark Overmars as a teaching tool to get children interested in programming.
It has very basic OOP functionality built in with child and parent objects, and you can actually create some pretty interesting applications with it.
The problem is that is a bit too fun and you will need to encourage your child to use this solely as a launching pad and not a final destination.
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If we stopped mass farming chickens where we would we get our cheap eggs. This is, of course, if everyone suddenly stopped eating chicken. Would we have old folks homes for chickens? I read that egg laying chickens are only permitted around a year of life.
If you don't mind giving the youngster a somewhat graphical and simple approach to programming, I highly suggest using Game Maker. It is a graphical game creation tool that also includes it's own scripting language that is very easy to get a hang of.
One of the more interesting aspects is that anything that is done with the icons or Drag and Drop items can be done through scripting creating a nice staged approach to learning programming.
It was created by a professor named Mark Overmars as a teaching tool to get children interested in programming.
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/
It has very basic OOP functionality built in with child and parent objects, and you can actually create some pretty interesting applications with it. The problem is that is a bit too fun and you will need to encourage your child to use this solely as a launching pad and not a final destination.