Recent content by bdazzled

Obsoleet: Thank you very much for the pointers. They came along seemingly at the right time, and appear to be just what the doctor ordered. He's been working on his game and making progress with it. A few teardowns and rebuilds, debugging and polishing, starting to realize why I'm always...

Progress Update after a few weeks with Python: My son: He worked through the library book I got for him, "Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners" (Sande.) This is a Python book, though the title doesn't indicate so. It seemed well-balanced to me—easy to...

He's still working through the Python book for now. He wrote a little 'Pong'-type game today, and I told him it would be more fun if it was his own face bouncing around, so a couple minutes with Irfanview and Paint, and there it is. Trying to keep it fun and seeing what is possible. It should...

Well I was at the public library today with my 4yo (I had thought about naming him SQL but my wife frowned...oops there's no smiley for a 'rimshot'.) Anyway, I found they had a decent beginner book on Python, so I got that for my son, and he has been working through the 1st 6-or-so chapters this...

Thanks for all the thoughtful suggestions. You've all given me some angles to consider, so I'm off to explore the array of choices you've provided. I will share this thread and the results of my research with my son, and try to select a good fit based on what his goals are. I wish I knew more...

My 12yo son has been wading into simple programming in his spare time. He's working on an old-school-style text adventure game with a rudimentary combat system, buying and selling, and things like that. The first I knew about his project was when he came to me for help debugging. I was both...