What's the best tool to teach kids programming?

>>55672183
Force them to learn C at a young age.

>>55672183
A computer
Might need a compiler
and a editor of some sort

A dead blow hammer, locked door, and a console.

>>55672183
my dick.

>>55672183
my doubles

Get them interested

Here's one:

Get them to watch their Mum fumble with tasks that you can automate, then automate it. Once they can see the benefits they'll start mucking around with it.

As the above they'll probably start with scripting and then move over to a actual language.

A PDP-11, UNIX, ed and THE C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

>>55672495
this
>>55672349
but actually this. automate the boring things with python. if they like games then al sweigert's (or whatever his last name is) python game books

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Cute dress
Pantyhose

>>55672183
The library. Sometimes they have free classes

>>55672183
>Facebook
>Personal Information
>Be safe
>Photos
>Strangers
>Chat rooms
>Webcam

This ins't computer science, these are anti-predatory classes.

>>55672183

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_(programming_language)

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>>55672202
>needing a computer to program
>needing a compiler to program
>needing an editor to program

>>55672183
You don't need to do that.
Just train them to fight for women rights and wage gap.

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>>55672183

>>55672183
basic

>>55672183
sex

>>55672183
unironically: gaymen

Seriously, just set them up with LOVE or Unity3D or fucking Flash or whatever, they'll learn while actually doing something engaging. Game dev will gradually introduces them to srs topics:

* Physics
* Procedural generation (even just simple shit like "how do I generate a random starfield for my asteroids clone?")
* Performance optimization
* AI for NPCs
* Data structures
* Data marshalling / serialization (save game, level editors...)


source: I am a pretty successful software engineer today at a "large online retailer" and started programming by making shitty games in some long-lost dialect of basic when i was 13

>>55672224
>>55675036
>>55676220
my ni/g/gas

>>55672183
A smack

Same tool to teach them anything else

Fear

>>55672183
A lot of programmers are tools.

Master Chef / Hell's Kitchen but about coding

>>55675970
This, around her neck and a rope...and make her half-naked, and you're my kind of man.

>>55672197
First the C, then the D. I got you senpai.

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>>55672202
>he thinks programming is about computers

>>55672183
Discrete math, linear algebra, graph theory