I've been working with my 7 year old on Logo, he really enjoys the lessons and visual feedback from turtle graphics. I decided not to reinvent the wheel, and purchased Terrapin Logo. Actually I purchased their Kinderlogo product,which is great for younger kids and includes a very nice and tested curriculum, so you can just teach from the lessons instead of having to come up with them. They are more than just "coding" exercises, they offer some decent comp sci stuff and some nice art and logic skills for working with computer graphics as well. If kids are young, K-3 grade this is a pretty attractive package. I also purchased the full Terrapin Logo because it supports the Lego Mindstorms NXT modules and sensors, I figured once he got his coding skills up we could build our own physical turtle and start fiddling with basic robotics. After Logo, I assume he'll pick the next language, though I'll probably direct him towards Python. I really recommend Terrapin Logo for younger programming students, these guys know how to teach kids programming/comp sci.
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I've been working with my 7 year old on Logo, he really enjoys the lessons and visual feedback from turtle graphics. I decided not to reinvent the wheel, and purchased Terrapin Logo. Actually I purchased their Kinderlogo product,which is great for younger kids and includes a very nice and tested curriculum, so you can just teach from the lessons instead of having to come up with them. They are more than just "coding" exercises, they offer some decent comp sci stuff and some nice art and logic skills for working with computer graphics as well. If kids are young, K-3 grade this is a pretty attractive package. I also purchased the full Terrapin Logo because it supports the Lego Mindstorms NXT modules and sensors, I figured once he got his coding skills up we could build our own physical turtle and start fiddling with basic robotics. After Logo, I assume he'll pick the next language, though I'll probably direct him towards Python. I really recommend Terrapin Logo for younger programming students, these guys know how to teach kids programming/comp sci. http://www.terrapinlogo.com/Kinderlogo.php http://www.terrapinlogo.com/terrapin-logo.php