Have any of you tried to teach a kid how to code?
My mother wants me to teach my 7 year old sister. I was looking at scratch but it's way too boring to hold a kids attention.
I was thinking about making a game in Unity 5 to teach her the basics but i wanted to ask here first so i don't waste hundreds of hours
Any programs to help her learn?
>>53596104
gentoo
>>53596104
is your sister cute?
:3
>>53596120
Gentoo you say.
>>53596126
She is, I've seen ugly as sin kids ( I was one) but she even said "sky's crying" when she was young.
>>53596104
why not ask her what she wants to do
Teach her to install Arch via terminal. It can be a great learning experience
>>53596104
Is your sister even interested in programming, or is your mum trying to force it on her?
Trying to teach the unwilling is pointless.
>>53596104
lua - love2d, the tools have dirty names though.
Is your sister hot? Post pics
>>53597085
Wtf dude
>>53597111
Tits or GTFO
Oh, wait, wrong board.
Maybe try to start her with Scratch.
>>53597111
Enjoy your stay.
>>53597176
He said teach her to code, not molest and rape her.
>>53596104
Machine code > assembly > c > kernel dev > endless publicity and $$$
>>53597218
Basically the same thing.
There are a fair numbers of games for kids that teach some very basic form of coding or introduce concepts to them.
>>53597085
No chomo.
If scratch can't get a 7 year old's attention then she'll never learn
My brother has been coding since he was 10 using lua and scratch. He's 13 now and writes in java and c#. He's going places
>>53597379
Is your brother hot? Post pics pls.
>>53597394
Jesus Christ /b/ go back to your containment board.
>>53597504
Is that a picture of his brother?
>>53597528
it's clearly bert from seasme street come on anon don't be stupid
http://sonic-pi.net/
This is a pretty cool way to teach programming concepts to younger children. You get instant results in form of music, which is a lot easier to wrap your mind around compared to the algorithms you'd need to write a game. And it's a 'legit' programming language, with loops, variables, even multi-threading.
Impartial about sonicPi specifically, there are various similar IDEs for livecoding music.
>>53597545
If he's Bert, I'm Ernie.