My son is very interested in developing a video game. He is only 10, but I want to encourage his interest and was wondering where is the best place for a 10 year old to start? learning language? understanding computer programing? as you can tell, I am not knowledable in such things in fact he knows more than I do.
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Jump to PostI'd suggest he starts to learn how to program any language, but probably start with VB.NET (Microsoft Visual Studio Express version is free). There are lots of intro tutorials on the web, and several books at amazon.com. Unfortunately he is too young to join DaniWeb (minimum age is 13). There …
Jump to PostFor a ten year old just starting off, I'd recommend Microsoft's Small Basic. I havent seen any other platforms that get much simplier than this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx
You can actually create a very simple …
Jump to PostFunny I just took my daughter through a programming language called ALICE. It is much like SCRATCH and for the young it is a very easy to understand and follow interface if you follow a book course. She is ten and now learning python. Alice is a very basic way …
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