I second www.codeacademy.com  I have a 14 year old son that I am doing the same thing with.  He loves games like minecraft. But to earn time on the game he has to do equal time per day completing assignments in www.codeacademy.com.  The have javascript, PHP, python, Ruby, CSS, HTML.   My son is have way through the javascript courses.  for math try khanacademy.com

Most of all they are free and easy to use. 


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:
http://www.codecademy.com    maybe something for the end of the summer?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:12 PM, AZ Pete <plug@cactusfamily.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> While my two boys (ages 9 & 13) are at home for the summer I currently keep
> them active by giving them fun math and science projects.
>
> I had the idea to have them become more familiar with basic programming
> concepts and perhaps be able to write the proverbial "hello world" program.
> I believe that programming (of any kind) is a required, core competency
> skill required for any kind of work in the 21st century, whether that work
> is in the tech industry or not.
>
> Does anyone know of some resources for simple and fun programming projects
> for kids.  I don't particularly care about which language, but we are on
> Windows platform.
>
> Any ideas would appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
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