Ask HN: How to teach a 4 year old to code?
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There's a toy called Turing Tumble that might be good too.
Turing Tumble looks a bit expensive, but might make a good birthday gift.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11109739/
It highlights https://www.scratchjr.org/
"The experimental cohort outperforms the control group with statistical significance in comprehending potent ideational constructs encompassing representation, algorithms, and hardware/software interplay. Conversely, the control group performs better in grasping the debugging concept than their experimental counterparts. "
So from this I think I'll use more in-person items and building literal things that have a problem, to teach debugging. Perhaps some kind of marble run. And discuss with him what he thinks will happen (the expectation) and the difference between that and what actually happens.
https://archive.org/details/alitpttg
(Searching for “Apple II logo” is frustrating but emulators exist)
?? program robot to fetch/push food items to bowl.
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Lock him in a room. Put him in front of a Windows 11 computer. A frien told me that it's "accessible". /s