| I love these suggestions, especially the card game and making their own website. I had my first real dev job when my son was born and I gave how to teach him code / reading / math a lot of thought. I tried speak and spells, workbooks, little toy pretend computers that had math games etc. In the end just giving him a raspberry pi with ubuntu, a big kids keyboard and no mouse seems to have been all he ever needs / wants. It boots directly into the Unix shell, I aliased a little speak and spell script I tossed together and some shortcuts to music on youtube. And he doesn't even really need those. He learned the basics much faster than I expected. Opening python for math, prepending "say" to words to have them read out loud (took some tooling in ubuntu...), control + C, control + W etc all seem to make general sense. And the slowness of the pi seems to help. Anyway he started reading before turning three and seems to be doing well enough with math and basic variable assignment for whatever that's worth. Helping him make a website and getting him using git seems like a fun next step. Now if only I could get him to care about anything more than his hotwheels collection... |
he's a kid, es supposed to care more about that than anything else.