What's the best way to teach 6-9 year old kids to program?

[EssoAir]

What if any of these languages run on the Pandora?


Omg I just remembered. Google used to have a drag-and-drop Android app creator but they removed it because it wasnt generating enough money

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Looks like I will go with Clik-And-Play and then Python...

 

[EssoAir]

Looks like I will go with Clik-And-Play and then Python...

After a click-and-play use Livecode. Super high lever but still text based

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Can stuff made in Clik-And-Play be ported to Pandora somehow?

 

[Asiyura]

AFAIK nope, Klik & Play is windows exclusive, as said, I'd rather take a peek at Scratch which runs natively on pandora.

 

[EssoAir]

Can stuff made in Clik-And-Play be ported to Pandora somehow?

Scratch exports its games as .jar files that run fine on the P with OpenJava

 

[commander-beef]

click and play will work on DosBox EX with Windows 3.11 installed  so no need to port anything.

 

[Pritchy]

I learnt the basic concepts using MMF, and then went to Python. I have an eBook I backed on kickstarter that I can freely distribute (I think, would need to double check) that really nicely covers the basics of Python.

Alternatively: Code Maven from Crunchzilla

Edit: Yup, permission directly from the Author in the eBook, give us a shout if you want it

 

[EssoAir]

I learnt the basic concepts using MMF, and then went to Python. I have an eBook I backed on kickstarter that I can freely distribute (I think, would need to double check) that really nicely covers the basics of Python.


Alternatively: Code Maven from Crunchzilla


Edit: Yup, permission directly from the Author in the eBook, give us a shout if you want it

Id like a copy. Pm it to me?

 

[Pritchy]

Might as well upload it here in case anyone else wants it

Real Python.pdf

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

^ Thank you!

 

[moxie]

Might as well upload it here in case anyone else wants it

That's actually quite good, that! A nice balance between doing the fundamentals and getting to the useful stuff. Thank you!

 

[NearTao]

If you haven't been directed to this url yet and you are interested in python/pygame (as suggest)... well check it out http://inventwithpython.com/makinggames.pdf

There are plenty of pygame examples to play with on the pygame website as well.

Honestly, if you want to use the pandora pygame is a easy choice to get started with and expand on from there.

Edit: you can also buy the book from amazon if you prefer a hard copy from here... http://www.amazon.com/Making-Games-Python-Pygame-Sweigart/dp/1469901730/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386961535&sr=8-1&keywords=pygame+programming

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

^ very good.  thank you.