Programs/Games/Websites for a 7 year old to start learning how to code

3 points by seoulbran 6y ago ↗ HN

I have a 7 yr old boy that has a real interest in technology. He's keen to learn how to program. Have you seen a great learning program/game/platform that I can use to get him introduced to the core concepts? Thank you!

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kashfi 6y ago ↗

For a seven-year-old? MIT's Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/

Once they are comfortable with scratch you can get them a Raspberry Pi and develop hardware-software projects depending on their interest.

Knowing Scratch also helps to get them into game development.

Lastly, after getting Scratch you can get the kid a Lego Mindstorms kit and build robots, musical intruments, etc.

seoulbran 6y ago ↗

Awesome. Was just told that Lego Mindstorms is the way to go as well. I'll start with scratch and we'll go from there. Thank you!

tmaly 6y ago ↗

I second Scratch. My daughter and I have been using it since 5.

I taught a quick intro course to it at her school in December. Here are the intro lessons I taught

http://nextlesson.com/homeschooling-ideas-learn-programming/