Teach Your Kids to Code
A Parent-Friendly Guide to Python Programming
by Bryson Payne · first published 2015
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"A guide to teaching basic programming skills for parents and teachers, with step-by-step explanations, visual examples, and exercises. Covers programming concepts including loops, lists, functions, and variables, and how to build games and applications"--
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MIT scratch to get the kids excited about programming. Also a great way to learn basic concepts like conditionals and loops. Then "Teach Your Kids to Code: A Parent-Friendly Guide to Python Programming". Build fun shapes using turtle. Source: Teaching an 8 year old to code.
on “Ask HN: How to best teach a group of children how to code?” ↗…that exist for production software and web applications. The biggest thing for me is, how do we teach some of these concepts to our kids at a young? What does that kind of curriculum look like? I found "Teach Your Kids to Code" (https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Kids-Code-Parent-Friendly/...) the other day, and it looks promising, but I'd be interested in other resources as well. EDIT: I may be wrong about Scratch's usefulness…
on “Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games” ↗