Programming for Kids

[Jason Holtzapple]

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.