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Ask HN: What is the best way to start teaching my 9 year old son programming

by subhashp on 8/31/17, 4:23 PM with 8 comments

• by Jemmeh on 9/1/17, 2:21 PM

  I really like some of the coding "games" that teach the concepts. For example https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/ but there's a bunch out there. I think it's important for kids to have fun with it so that they're motivated to keep learning.

  Also Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/parents/ (Aimed at 8-16 years old)

• by subhashp on 9/2/17, 5:07 AM

  Thank you everyone for your feedback. I will keep everything simple and stop. Cover advanced stuff later on. I will follow links mentioned by Jemmeh.

• by danjoc on 8/31/17, 4:26 PM

  Does he even know fractions yet? It sounds like you're setting him up to hate programming.