Timeline for How can I help a child stay motivated in learning to program?
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 1:02 | comment | added | Kai Qing | Lol. I'm a web programmer. I don't know whether to have him email me so I can hire him or warn him how boring and useless this field of work is. With web programming, the motivation comes when you see your efforts alive on the internet. Talk to some friends and see who could use a free website. Let him build them. You can get a basic hosting plan with dreamhost for almost nothing and have all his projects hosted under his accounts. Charge the clients $5 a month for hosting. He will become motivated quickly when he sees his work making money... not that money should be the motivation | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 22:47 | comment | added | Andrew |
the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and JS, which I don't know anything about (I'm not a programmer) says the person with 4k SO reputation and whose top tags happen to be HTML, CSS, and JS
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| Jan 21, 2015 at 21:42 | history | protected | Karl Bielefeldt | ||
| Jan 6, 2015 at 9:41 | comment | added | Mark Williams | Sounds like the type of kid that will be self-motivated to learn anyway. Encourage by providing kit - perhaps a raspberry Pi would make a nice birthday present, or a programmable robot? My oldest declined to show any interest when young (up to about 13), but is now a professional games programmer.. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 16:58 | comment | added | LauraJ | Stack Overflow is a great place for him to get over frustrating bugs and issues. Also, a friend of mine uses Code School codeschool.com and he really likes it. This is tailored towards Web Developers and has easy to follow video tutorials. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 5:55 | answer | added | zigenz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 21:59 | history | edited | bjb568 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 4, 2015 at 7:32 | answer | added | Mattie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 5:46 | comment | added | user11394 | To keep the child motivated to code you need to instill intrinsic motivation, not specifically for coding. While this question is about coding, I think it could be broadened to "How do I help a child learn more difficult material about a subject I don't know?" A good answer to that question will be an equally good answer to your question. | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 22:53 | answer | added | user1775944 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 22:53 | answer | added | Charles | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 14:24 | comment | added | Evorlor | Learn to code with him. Fun activity for u to do together. That way u can do the frustrating parts for him in the beginning. | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 13:22 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 12:14 | answer | added | Deimantas | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 20:49 | history | edited | bjb568 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2015 at 16:29 | answer | added | JoeK | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 13:39 | comment | added | the_lotus | I learned programming by myself at a very early age. My dad bought me the tools (today, you can get a free version of visual studio) and books. He doesn't need to program like a pro yet, just to have fun doing it. I had fun by making games, started with a text-based adventure, then a 2D shooter game. Also with visual studio, he can increase the complexity of this website by making it dynamic. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 5:36 | comment | added | Jeff Hammond | A friend of mine wrote a blog post (davidketcheson.info/2014/12/09/teaching_kids_to_program.html) about how he is teaching his kids to program that might be useful to you. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 0:18 | answer | added | kasperd | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 21:12 | answer | added | user7678 | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jan 1, 2015 at 17:16 | answer | added | Aaron | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jan 1, 2015 at 14:36 | answer | added | Sidney | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 11:15 | comment | added | Per Alexandersson | Hmm, just forbid it, and they will be immensely interested in the topic. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 5:18 | answer | added | Spencer D | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Jan 1, 2015 at 3:06 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackParenting/status/550488221038419968 | ||
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| Dec 31, 2014 at 23:09 | history | asked | bjb568 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |