|
| wmichelin wrote:
| "Dad can I please play with my toys?"
|
| "Not until you learn python you little shit"
| groovy2shoes wrote:
| You had me at "20 sided dice".
| jrgd wrote:
| Simple Efficient Fun
|
| I'm a fan.
| ghostly_s wrote:
| This may well be an effective way to learn to code but god, it
| sure doesn't seem like a way to have any fun.
| dang wrote:
| Please follow the Show HN guidelines:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html as well as the site
| guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
| I'm sure you meant no harm, but comments like this have a way
| of poisoning the culture, especially when they get upvoted to
| the top of the page, as they often do.
| throwaway47292 wrote:
| apparently fun is subjective :D
| block_dagger wrote:
| I suggest simplifying the content of the cards. Love this idea!
| throwaway47292 wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion, I made those specifically with my
| daughter, and are tailored to improve her level.
|
| But you are right, in the future I will make decks with
| different difficulties.
| emacsen wrote:
| May I suggest that instead of Python, if the aim is for
| children, you consider a block based language such as Scratch
| or MakeCode?
|
| I have a nephew who is ~8 and is doing absolutely amazing
| with Scratch in his classroom. He's making little mini-games,
| understanding loops, variables, and he's learning the all-
| important skill of debugging.
|
| When/if he transitions from a block based programming
| language to one that's purely textual, I feel like that
| transition will be smooth based on his existing understanding
| and skills.
|
| So if the aim is puzzles for kids, having a setting that they
| are more familiar with, such as blocks, might make it easier.
|
| Just a thought.
| whoomp12342 wrote:
| here we go, right back to punch cards...
| ByThyGrace wrote:
| > playing card game to teach your kids
|
| > "Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange"
|
| Just how old and already well-instructed is said daughter I
| wonder. Certainly not as young and novice (and sparsely
| attentive) as my ten year-old who's also learning Python. Because
| he wants to, I should add.
| trykondev wrote:
| This is so neat! Seems like a really fun game, and I'm also a big
| fan of the very straightforward & minimal website. Would
| definitely buy one of the decks you're planning to sell :)
| throwaway47292 wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| The 300 decks arrived yesterday, and we were super excited with
| my daughter. Today we played multiple times and its super fun.
| Even though we played many times when I printed the game on
| normal a4 paper, having the real professional cards really make
| a difference.
|
| I plan to also make lisp, c and javascript decks so we can
| explore more paradigms.
| prashnts wrote:
| Just curious if you could share how old is your daughter.
|
| I have tried teaching coding (several approaches, but
| eventually on Scratch) my 9yo nephew, but ran into many
| issues. For example, trying to debug a counter, I thought
| it'd be fun if I asked "hey, what's 7 - 2", and he went "it's
| 5, duh" and then I went "and what's 2 - 7", ... and he went
| "that's not possible!"
|
| Turns out his math teacher hasn't yet introduced negative
| numbers! I had to go back to number line...
|
| Anyway, what you've done is really cool! I'm sure once he's
| old enough it might prove to be very useful.
| throwaway47292 wrote:
| She is almost 11 now, but we are coding every day for
| almost a year now (I am logging the progress here:
| https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids). Its often
| we go to the number line :) but because we usually make
| games, and it was easy to get negative numbers when you go
| out of the screen, so it "clicked".
|
| The whole game was her idea and we started working on it
| about 5 months ago.
| prashnts wrote:
| That's awesome, the end result seems enjoyable even for
| us adults! :)
| pbronez wrote:
| that repo is awesome - you should do a ShowHN for that!
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