Teaching children programming like vimtutor
How to teach children programming This question sits in my head after reading a post about choosing the right literature for this. After thinking for a while about the books that I had ever read, I did not come to anything good, and decided to go the other way. As far as I was able to recall, the most effective training material for me was the vimtutor guide and books on elementary mathematics with exercises. Having concluded that for the effective development of the material it is necessary to mix theory with practice, I decided to write a pilot training course in programming for children aged 8 years and older.
Now you need to choose the language suitable for learning. Since I sat for a long time on Wap forums (wap-master forums, as guests call them), I quickly noticed an important feature - there are a lot of young people and it is constantly changing. Apparently, young people are attracted to PHP and the creation of sites, and this language is quite simple to learn even for a child. "Why not?" I thought.
In a few hours, I wrote the first part of a PHP training course, a pilot release, so to speak. I tried to make everything as simple as possible, but still the presence of an adult is desirable. The course is made in the style of vimtutor and includes many small tasks interspersed with theory. The peculiarity of the course is that all the material is written directly into the PHP script, which you can execute and immediately see the results of your work, well, errors are natural.
You can download the first chapter of the course here .
PHP version 5.3+ is required for training.
What do you think, is it worth continuing? Is everything written for the child clear enough?
Now you need to choose the language suitable for learning. Since I sat for a long time on Wap forums (wap-master forums, as guests call them), I quickly noticed an important feature - there are a lot of young people and it is constantly changing. Apparently, young people are attracted to PHP and the creation of sites, and this language is quite simple to learn even for a child. "Why not?" I thought.
In a few hours, I wrote the first part of a PHP training course, a pilot release, so to speak. I tried to make everything as simple as possible, but still the presence of an adult is desirable. The course is made in the style of vimtutor and includes many small tasks interspersed with theory. The peculiarity of the course is that all the material is written directly into the PHP script, which you can execute and immediately see the results of your work, well, errors are natural.
You can download the first chapter of the course here .
PHP version 5.3+ is required for training.
What do you think, is it worth continuing? Is everything written for the child clear enough?
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What can you say about the course?
- 3.5% Simple enough for a child 5
- 12.6% Too difficult for a child 18
- 17.6% PHP is a good choice for course 25
- 72.5% Better to choose a different PL 103
- 7.7% Need More Theory 11
- 14% Need more practice 20
- 6.3% File Structure Too Complex 9
- 14% A similar approach can be used for adults 20