detectiveninja

we will see how it goes in a year or so, i think the sooner we go to c and then into lisp the better

I think programming is equivalent to literacy. So treating it like piano or math school is fine by me.

BTW now that she is beyond the initial wall, after about 3-4 months 30 minutes per day, she is enjoying making games and coming up with her own ideas. It is amazing how much you can do with just lists :)

I am in the process of teaching my kid (10) how to code, we tried all kinds of things, from programmable robots to scratch and nothing worked.

I dont think there is uniform process for every child.

In the end I just started spending 30 minutes every day with her and just coding, explaining and making small useful things.

here I am logging the process:

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

this is so weird

I don't use autocomplete nor syntax highlighting, this thing feels almost hostile to my ways.

(the only non linear help I love, is jump to definition)

my local book store is selling lord of the rings books for 35E, the same set is 16E in amazon

I do want to support them, but I cant afford the difference.