Teenage ds wants to learn to code over the summer

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amother

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 10:57 am

Looking for a rec for an online coding program. Ds motivated and able to sit and stay with it until he learns it, and since he has no other plans this summer I think it's a good idea. But I don't know anything about this and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed trying to find a program. He's done Scratch and all the younger kid stuff.

Can anyone recommend a good online program?

hodeez

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 11:12 am

Codecademy

Ora in town

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 11:20 am

Check out mooc there are lots of moocs (massive open online courses) on software writing...
The courses are for free, you then can pass an exam, for free too, if you want a certificate, you have to pay a modest fee...
Courses are from best Universities...
Check it out..

amother

Lime

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 11:59 am

Khan Academy

amother

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 2:37 pm

Thank you ladies, I will look into all of these.

amother

Teal

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 6:55 pm

are there any that are not online? my ds has been showing an interest but we don't want him to be online.

amother

Aqua

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 7:00 pm

amother [ Teal ] wrote:

are there any that are not online? my ds has been showing an interest but we don't want him to be online.

It's pretty much impossible to learn to code offline- it's not the type of thing you can learn from a book. it's very interactive (unless maybe you find some kind of downloadable software? I don't know of anything though)

iluvy

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 7:14 pm

I'm not familiar with this specific book, but this is a great publisher and it looks like a good textbook for learning Python (which is considered a good first programming language).

Learning Python, 5th Edition by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly)

You will need to download some things for him, but once he has python and all packages installed he can work through the book without the Internet.

amother

Purple

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 7:35 pm

I've been buying python books for my teen ds who has a knack for it. Amazon has lots of them.

a.r.

Sun, Jun 21 2020, 10:40 pm

Freecodecamp.com

amother

Brunette

Thu, Jun 25 2020, 2:41 am

I know you said you don't want online, but my DD did this course last summer.
I was recommended it by someone on imamother and it was very good.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/python

It's not free but not expensive.

amother

Brunette

Thu, Jun 25 2020, 2:43 am

I was also recommended this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Self-Ta.....ite=1

But didn't try it, but might be worth looking into, if you don't want an online course.

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