5 tools for 5-year-old to learn to build robots
Why have a kid unless you can spend hours creating fantastical robots?
I’m collecting a list of products to teach a 5 year-old about the world of programming and robots:
- TerrapinLogo and Kinderlogo
- Lego WeDo
- MIT’s Scratch
- Alan Kay’s Squeak
- Cubelets
Updates:
- For Ruby lovers: Hackety-Hack and Ruby4Kids
- Stencyl is another scratch-like tool
Books:
- Seymour Papert’s Mindstorm’s and The Children’s Machine (if I read the latter, is it worth reading the former still?)
- I my friend KCL recommends Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
Is 5 years old too young? LOL! If so, when’s a good age to start?
Have you taught a kid to program? What would your advice be?
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