Hi all,
My 8 year old is asking if he can learn how to program.
I’d like to support this, and it seems like it’s not a transient interest as he’s been all over scratch, and using things like minecraft commands for the last year. I have an old (pre 2017) MacBook Air I can set up for this. How do I / what would you advise I set up for him, to a) keep him safe online (he’s 8!) and b) give him the tools he needs in a structured way.
Try a more advanced node based programming language that aligns more with a specific language. Something like NodeRed for Java…
…or maybe he’s ready to try game development on something like Godot, which has a language a lot like python.
Python is apparently a good first language to learn.