Started my 7 year old daughter on Turtle tonight! We did the first 3 examples. She was excited to do what daddy does (for now) The fun thing for her was the play. We did the filled circle example then she wanted to change colors, pen size circle size. All GREAT things. I told her have at it, change everything, break it, see what happens and fix it.
She might not be a programmer, we'll see how far it goes but man.... the interaction, problem solving and learning to iterate towards a solution. Those are life skills kids miss out on these days.
Yes I'm old LOL darn kids with their youtubes and instagrams....get off my lawn !! LOL! JK ? Thanks again @Erel
Pro tip, if they are this young, get them past the stuff they won't understand, setting up the ide, connecting to a phone etc.. just get where they can type in the few commands and see it work.Get em' hooked
She might not be a programmer, we'll see how far it goes but man.... the interaction, problem solving and learning to iterate towards a solution. Those are life skills kids miss out on these days.
Yes I'm old LOL darn kids with their youtubes and instagrams....get off my lawn !! LOL! JK ? Thanks again @Erel
Pro tip, if they are this young, get them past the stuff they won't understand, setting up the ide, connecting to a phone etc.. just get where they can type in the few commands and see it work.Get em' hooked