My daughter (12) is interested in learning coding. I think making games might be a way to keep her interested. Do you think his courses would be too advanced for a teen?
Alternatively, get her an emulator of an old 8 or 16 bit system, I started coding at the age of 10 in these systems, with books that were oriented for kids.
If it was a few years later, I wouldn't be surprised if there were some courses for the recent Unreal Editor for Fornite that could ease a new programmer in as an interactive way to script, while learning a relevant industry tool (then again, it may also go the route of Roblox, so who knows?).
Honestly, I'd defer to either mods or games with level editors as a way to help gauge how much a child would potentially enjoy programming. Then they could try sme visual scripting like Scratch to try and make something outside of that environment.
My kid did a Minecraft coding group. It started with a mod that had a rollercoaster on it. They taught you how to to modify it in exercises. My kid tapped out pretty fast, I came to the conclusion they liked Minecraft, but the experience of coding it was a whole other matter.
Ironically, when I was a kid I used to read the code of computer games out of curiosity and that's exactly what got me into programming.
Hi. Author here! I'll try to be unbiased and say that if she's just starting out I'm afraid there are better beginner-oriented resources out there for teens. Frankly, what I do is very niche and it's not really utilitarian for those starting out.
I have a son and I asked the same question on how to start learning. I have decided to start with PICO-8 and then evolve to something else. Fingers crossed. :)
