kaggle-environments VS scratch-www

If you are interested in Data Science, you may want to look at Kaggle competitions. https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

Secondly, if you feel like you do not have enough skills or a lack of practice answering problem statements, there are a lot of good websites where you can find interesting projects. I would recommend starting participating in some Kaggle competitions or download some free Google datasets and start playing with them.

For reference: Kaggle is a Google product. You can see the list of current competitions here.

You could try Kaggle competitions, or participating in forecasting markets (as you stated) is another option. You don't need any specific skill set to be a forecaster, the rules of the bet are stipulated and from there it's just based on your ability to predict the outcome. You could also try your hand at investing in the stock market, or try and make money betting on sports games. If you're very good at this stuff I'm sure you can make a lot of money doing it. The thing to keep in mind is that generally video games are much much easier than real life

As to the specifics of your projects, that's up to you. Try browsing Kaggle; check out some of the work we have on The Pudding; check out some journalism examples to see what you can try to build on or improve.

You might want to look at kaggle competitions.

and https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now.

I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I think when kids grok these things these apps become just types of glofiried education flavoured video games. There are a lot of things in kodable for instance that I feel are just basic web games with coding terms slapped on it.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ is more like 'programming' imo, even at the level of the objective -- having a blank canvas to create something. It seems a little advanced for my kids right now though.

+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua.

Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Scratch.mit.edu is a highly-recommended place to start [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/

> Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization. [2]

1: https://scratch.mit.edu/

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Scratch version 2)

Someone who uses scratch.mit.edu (like me)

Now that I think of it, I did start game development on scratch before going right into java (because of minecraft).

I'm looking for the best systems to help a 4/5 year old get the basics of programming. My daughter has shown interest in what I do, and loves puzzles and building things. Looking for something visual and fun that can start her down the path of logic and creating with computers.

I have a passing familiarity with Scratch [1], which I'm now looking into more, but am hoping others can share their knowledge and experience in this area.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/