6 Ways Parents Can Introduce Their Kids to Coding

From  Mental Floss:

You don’t need an expensive computer to start coding. Our 11-year-old son has a Raspberry Pi, a $35 computer that’s about the size of a credit card. He hooked it up to an old keyboard, an old mouse, and our family television set. We installed a Raspberry Pi–specific operating system called Raspbian, which includes the programming language Python. Now he’s teaching himself Python on his Raspberry Pi by watching YouTube tutorials.

Here are six strategies I’ve used with my own kids.

1. EXPLAIN CODING IN SIMPLE TERMS.
2. USE GAMES.
3. GET ARTISTIC.
4. UNLEASH THE ROBOTS.
5. START SMALL.
6. DON'T FREAK OUT.

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