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+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/

How about using

https://scratch.mit.edu/

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This ! Learning to code will come after, spending time with your son writing down ideas might be more fun at first and it's a good time to teach him that games are thoughts first and then coded after.

I would have recommended Scratch [1] for a first introduction instead of hoping into code right away, but since he is 9yo he will most likely want to hop on big game engine like he sees his favorite youtubers doing.

so while you guys are thinking about ideas, you should look up and compare engine in this thread and learn one, then teach him and make the game/prototype together later.

[1] - 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)

Mashing this up with something like https://scratch.mit.edu/ would float my boat :)

Huh. I thought the title might have been a grammar mishap ("from scratch" is how I read it first), but apparently Scratch is a kids-oriented visual programming tool: https://scratch.mit.edu/

Neat. Kind of reminds me of LOGO in days of yore.

// EDIT You can also try something like Scratch

Scratch is amazing. https://scratch.mit.edu/

And a slightly different direction than what you describe. Nowadays a complete "basic environment" on a computer (say a Raspberry Pi, sure why not, but perhaps simply a used laptop) feels too complicated. Far more complicated than DOS was.

Scratch is actually both interesting for kids and a seriously competent programming environment. They can explore; they can implement basic games; they can implement ambitious games or other directions like story telling. And possibly (but not all that easily) open for cooperation, cooperating on larger projects with others.

These are just my opinions, but:

- Arduino C with ESP32.

- https://scratch.mit.edu

- Basic Python (ala the wealth of No Starch Press Python books oriented towards kids and games and fun projects).

On GitHub.

My Scala solution – to be cleaned up.

My Scala solution.

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Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! Day 16 was... how to put this?

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My Scala solution, not yet cleaned up at all.

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My Scala solution.