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so my son finished 'learn.code.org' in one afternoon
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:47 pm
kids these days.
aside from codeacademy and khanacademy, any other good resources?
i give this site 2 big thumbs up..great way to introduce your children to coding.
functions, control logic, event handlers..its all there.
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Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:55 pm to CAD703X
Bet he has an iphone
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:56 pm to VermilionTiger
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Bet he has an iphone
you dont know me very well
This post was edited on 7/21/14 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 7/21/14 at 2:07 pm to CAD703X
How old is he??
Posted on 7/21/14 at 2:34 pm to CAD703X
Time to profit off him
Posted on 7/21/14 at 2:48 pm to CENLALSUFAN
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How old is he??
teenager..with way too much time invested in minecraft.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 2:48 pm to CENLALSUFAN
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This post was edited on 7/21/14 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 7/21/14 at 2:49 pm to CAD703X
I like MIT's OCW, especially 6.00SC , for beginners.
EdX, has Harvard's CS50x, which also looks good.
6.00SC is in Python; CS50x starts with a visual language (Scratch), and jumps into C. I'm just going through it now and I don't know what happens after week 4 yet.
Both are doable by a kid with an attention span, both (especially CS50x) have more or less extensive resources available online aside from the top-notch video lectures. Both include basics of academic computer science as well as just learning how to use specific languages.
Also, both are legit classes from the respective universities, made available online, and not something created and put together specifically for the web, so your kid might also get a feel for what college looks like.
EdX, has Harvard's CS50x, which also looks good.
6.00SC is in Python; CS50x starts with a visual language (Scratch), and jumps into C. I'm just going through it now and I don't know what happens after week 4 yet.
Both are doable by a kid with an attention span, both (especially CS50x) have more or less extensive resources available online aside from the top-notch video lectures. Both include basics of academic computer science as well as just learning how to use specific languages.
Also, both are legit classes from the respective universities, made available online, and not something created and put together specifically for the web, so your kid might also get a feel for what college looks like.
This post was edited on 7/21/14 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:12 pm to CAD703X
tell him to do it again, no way he learned all that in an afternoon.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:26 pm to Hawkeye95
Set the kid up with a Google play or iOS developer account and give him an app project to build. Have him start selling apps and put the proceeds in a college fund.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:32 pm to Hawkeye95
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tell him to do it again, no way he learned all that in an afternoon.
i watched him do some of it.
the only thing i helped him out on was the 3 houses, different sizes. he only had 33 lines of code to make it happen and couldn't figure out how to get the guy to the right starting point and facing the right way to start the next house without running out of code.
so i showed him a trick on that one..but he just plowed through the rest after that on his own.
This post was edited on 7/21/14 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:33 pm to FreddieMac
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Set the kid up with a Google play or iOS developer account and give him an app project to build. Have him start selling apps and put the proceeds in a college fund.
great idea..even for just the experience of putting an app together.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:40 pm to CAD703X
The thing with code is that you must do it over and over agian for it to stick.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:42 pm to Jackie Chan
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The thing with code is that you must do it over and over agian for it to stick.
oh i agree..although like riding a bike you don't forget the basics (variables, functions, control loops, event-driven programming)
thats why i'm looking to move him to the next thing while he's still excited.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:27 pm to CAD703X
pluralsight or lynda
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:12 pm to CAD703X
idk shite about coding. should i do this when im bored?
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:28 pm to Carson123987
i'm already almost 7 months into 2014 and i haven't done anything towards my goals of learning a coding language and re-learning spanish
i need to get on it
i need to get on it
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:40 pm to CAD703X
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great idea..even for just the experience of putting an app together.
Hope you have some apple devices for him to code on, and get him to learn Swift. That is if you want him to code for iOS.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 6:32 pm to ADLSUNSU
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pluralsight
Would sign him up for a personal pluralsight account. Also, depending on what platform and framework he wants to dabble in, there are tons of free resources out there also.
Free Microsoft Resources
Posted on 7/21/14 at 6:46 pm to CAD703X
codebabes.com (legit site but maybe nsfw)
I'm sure he'd enjoy that one! Seriously though codeschool.com is another good one.
I'm sure he'd enjoy that one! Seriously though codeschool.com is another good one.
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