Learning to code is one such skill that sets your kid apart from the crowd. In the same way, it also helps your kid in landing some amazing opportunities in his/her career. Some Points are:
Depending on the age of the child, Logo is also a decent way to introduce programming. Kids are more visually oriented. They want to see the computer doing more than just printing words or numbers on a screen. Logo allows them to write simple programs to control a digital turtle to draw shapes on the screen. There are Python implementations of the Logo interface available for free.
I highly recommend the book Mind Storms: Children, Computers & Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert. Emphasis on the Logo language.
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