11-21-2017, 10:47 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
My boy has gotten into computer programming in a big way. He's been churning out computer games on Scratch 2 at a furious pace and learning programming faster than I thought possible. The beauty of this is that it doesn't involve dragging mountains of stuff to Goodwill and our house isn't full of mountains of paper from projects at school. I highly recommend Scratch 2 for anyone wanting to introduce their kids to programming. He's been teaching my mother in law how to program using Scratch between Hebrew lessons, so they combine the two. He's giving her directions and they count off the various numbers and coordinates in Hebrew. She loves it.
Anyway, for Christmas we're getting him a couple of Scratch programming books, and I purchased a Kano computer kit so he can build his own Raspberry Pi 3 computer and hack on Minecraft as well. If anyone is interested, I have a link that will get you $10 off a Kano kit and I get a $10 credit to any of their other products I might decide to buy. I think you need to mention my email address (ztirffritz at gmail dot com):
http://t.mention-me.email/lnk/AEEASwCVE0...RlbnQ9Y3Rh
How old is your boy? We've got grandkids, some of whom are playing Minecraft, and one (8 yrs old) interested in programming.
/Mr Lynn