Summer Fun: Teaching Kids Programming
Sunday, July 29th, 2007As a parent you’re well into the summer-long, entertainment-challenged break from school but that doesn’t mean your kids have to spend all day using text-messaging short-hand to discuss the latest Harry Potter ending, when they could be learning programming languages, does it?
Like many programming parents, for whom BASIC camp doesn’t exist, as referenced in Salon’s Why Johnny Can’t Code, many are taking matters into their own hands.
Yakov Fain is one such parent who wrote, Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents, and he talks about it in this article Teaching Kids Programming: Even Younger Kids Can Learn Java
Sites dedicated to a similar venture include Squeakland and Star Logo and Gamemaker
So tell us about your own experience with teaching your kids code…