Hi Pete,
Jason - I second scratch as it's very common for that age range.
The following are kid-friendly versions of industry tools like LabView or
Simulink. These tools adopt a paradigm of programming through drag-n-drop
elements vs. text coding. The main difference (between text based coding
and drag-n-drop coding) being that the engagement can be much higher with
our young ones.
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http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects/kodu
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http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/history/default.aspx
Best,
Vimal
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jason Holtzapple <
ml@bitflip.net> wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 06:12 PM, AZ Pete 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.
>
> I'd try scratch.mit.edu or alice.org to start. For more advanced budding
> programmers, robocode.sf.net or appinventor.mit.edu might be fun. There
> are more, those are just ones that I have used or taught personally.
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