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by uf00lme 920 days ago
Maybe try paper and pen? Some simple fun exercises. Documenting cooking or making simple food, like the logic behind making a sandwich and then make it. As a bonus, you get to eat some food, and the kid learns some life skills. I guess that is not really programming, but the process, organisation and problem-solving skill set isn't that different for a kid.
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Its a good set of exercises, and we do it some already (we bake together). Right now she really wants to "make things on the computer". Of course there's always paint apps and the like, but I was doing advent of code problems the other night and she asked what it was, and she got excited when I said it was "programming puzzles".