Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by frankjr 1621 days ago
Get him started on something that focuses solely on the programming concepts and the way of thinking without any unnecessary noise (pointers, lifetimes etc.). When I was starting out I attended a programming club/group and we were using Robot Karel. It's a little programming environment where you control a robot and walk him through obstacles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_(programming_language)

https://karel1981.com/

1 comments

A modern version using Python is https://reeborg.ca/reeborg.html