DS11 is interested in computer programming, and I'd like to find something online for him to use as an after-school enrichment. I am a little clueless not only about where to find him something, but also about *what* to look for. A long long long time ago (in what seems like a galaxy far far away) I actually worked as a computer programmer, and I had a minor in computer science in college, but that was the dark ages and so much has changed since then, I am clueless.
Here's what ds has had re computer experience:
He's taken a few computer summer camps where they did animation programming using Bryce, and he's used Scratch. At school he's completed a one-semester course in MicroWorlds - it wasn't really "taught" by the teacher - the students worked their way through the full set of tutorials and now he's programming in it.
He's also worked with NXT robots for years, has one at home and he's proficient at programming them.
He hasn't had an html experience, but he's not really interested in making web pages, he's more interested in building animations and creating games.
I think he'd enjoy something that got into really really basic programming (not BASIC lol - if anyone is old enough to remember that!), but something fundamental, kwim?
Any ideas?
polarbear
