Free or cheap online programming course for young children

[snapenilk]

Yes, my name is Bryce, and I am okay with anybody here knowing that.
EDIT: I edited my profile.

[earthrulerr]

I taught myself HTML, JS, and CSS using https://www.w3schools.com/ (free)

[earthrulerr]

@snapenilk

Roblox

Roblox is LUA.

[sir_kitten2]

Try Kahn Academy. It is completely free and requires no account. (Please note KA's programming tutorials are kind of outdated.)

[348663451y]

If they feel like learning any program, I suggest Python. It is SUPER EASY to learn. I feel like it's JavaScript without all the stuff like calling "var" to make a new variable and adding a semi-colon after each line. Python has none of that. I learned Python from a YouTube tutorial. It's 4 hours, although of course, you don't have to watch it all at once. It's from freecodecamp.org. Here is the link: Learn Python - Full Course for Beginners [Tutorial] - YouTube

[test19230]

I enjoyed the Snap courses available in OpenSap, they are all free.

bh posted some recommendations recently after I asked that I was looking for something to do after finishing the OpenSap courses:

Book recommendations, or tutorials?

Hi, welcome to the forum! There are a bunch of different directions you can go in, depending on your interests and experience. bjc.edc.org is The Beauty and Joy of Computing, a yearlong secondary school course that starts at the beginning but moves in somewhat different directions from the SAP course. Codierte Kunst by Joachim Wedekind is a fantastic book of Snap! programs that generate art in the style of various modern artists. It's in German, so I can't read the text, but the Snap! code i…

Edit:
Found this free PDF by an organization called Code Club , offers free courses. It's for Scratch, but as far as I know, Snap can be used as well.

Edit 2:
Found that Code Club offers the same PDF as a self-guided online course (Link).
hope that helps!

[warped_wart_wars]

@348663451y

program

...ming language.

In Python, you can use semicolons at the ends of statements.

I know Python pretty well.

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

@warped_wart_wars

In Python, you can use semicolons at the ends of statements.

wow, I thought that was only for javascript.

[warped_wart_wars]

Most common programming languages have semicolon-delimited lines. JS is special because, even though it does require them, if it finds a line that should end in a semicolon but doesn't, it inserts the semicolon.

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

oh, ok.

[bh]

What's really annoying in most text-based programming languages is that if you have a sequence of statements like this: , half the languages require that orange semicolon, and the other half prohibit it.

If you have to use a text language, let it be Scheme.

[earthrulerr]

Yeah, it is really annoying. I say if you were trying to teach coding start with python.

[348663451y]

@warped_wart_wars

@348663451y

program

...ming language.

Sorry. Typo.

@warped_wart_wars

In Python, you can use semicolons at the ends of statements.

Yes, but only if you want to put multiple statements in a single line.

[348663451y]

I agree.

[bh]

@earthrulerr

I say if you were trying to teach coding start with python.

And what's wrong with Snap!? It's a much more powerful programming language (because Python has a broken lambda), and very little syntax to get in the way.

[warped_wart_wars]

print("Hello World!");
print("Moew");

is valid Python code.

[348663451y]

Very sorry. I meant a text-based language. No offence meant. If I wanted to code Python I wouldn't be on this forum.

[earthrulerr]

Oh yeah, you should use Snap! first!

[earthrulerr]

Hmmm, well easy starting html then you could do CSS or JS to go with it.

[warped_wart_wars]

Python's lambda was never intended to be a full feature:

@Python Docs Design and History FAQ

Why can’t lambda expressions contain statements?

Python lambda expressions cannot contain statements because Python’s syntactic framework can’t handle statements nested inside expressions. However, in Python, this is not a serious problem. Unlike lambda forms in other languages, where they add functionality, Python lambdas are only a shorthand notation if you’re too lazy to define a function.