My 5 year old is playing Minecraft and watching YouTube videos. He has now started asking about the automations, switches etc. so I'm teaching him the basics of coding, but in visual minecraft.when i asked about if and else the other day and referenced the switches he understood instantly what meant.
Perhaps something along lines of setting up / planning robot/activity path?
aka (noted in other postings) scratch junior[0]; mblock botly dash[1]; code & go
?? program robot to fetch/push food items to bowl.
"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. "
But when I read further it's that the assessment had to do with a seesaw, which the control group had a literal seesaw they can use before and understand. While the experimental group was learning more abstract debugging.
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.
My 5 year old is playing Minecraft and watching YouTube videos. He has now started asking about the automations, switches etc. so I'm teaching him the basics of coding, but in visual minecraft.when i asked about if and else the other day and referenced the switches he understood instantly what meant.
I’d fire up Logo. The little drawing turtle.
Is it this one? https://turtleacademy.com/lessons/1
That’s the one! Well, technically an updated one; I remember this one:
https://archive.org/details/alitpttg
(Searching for “Apple II logo” is frustrating but emulators exist)
https://www.transum.org/software/Logo/
Perhaps something along lines of setting up / planning robot/activity path? aka (noted in other postings) scratch junior[0]; mblock botly dash[1]; code & go
?? program robot to fetch/push food items to bowl.
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[0] : https://www.scratchjr.org/
[1] : https://blockly.games/puzzle
This article covers some things, I guess
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11109739/
It highlights https://www.scratchjr.org/
this part seemed interesting:
But when I read further it's that the assessment had to do with a seesaw, which the control group had a literal seesaw they can use before and understand. While the experimental group was learning more abstract debugging.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.
There's a few episodes of the PBS show Cyber Chase you might want to watch with your kid.
There's a toy called Turing Tumble that might be good too.
Thanks. Wow there's full episodes of Cyber Chase on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Cyberchase.Official
Turing Tumble looks a bit expensive, but might make a good birthday gift.
Make it a game like the carol the robot class at stanford.
> Ask HN: How to teach a 4 year old to code?
Lock him in a room. Put him in front of a Windows 11 computer. A frien told me that it's "accessible". /s