[HN Gopher] TurboWarp Desktop
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TurboWarp Desktop
Author : varun_ch
Score : 27 points
Date : 2022-11-17 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| 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:
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| https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qNHqaZ9CdVwQsh4sEslf3GG...
|
| The things my son has used or is using:
|
| * Osmo Coding Awbie (requires Osmo hardware)
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| * 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.
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