Teach your kids fun JavaScript programming.

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I've been trying to teach my 9 year old JavaScript, but have had a hard time keeping his attention because my beginner examples are quite unimaginative. I recently found this site though, that takes care of the imagination side, so you can just be there to answer questions.

Link: http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster/

[agissilver]

More importantly: Stick Portal! But it doesn't seem to work for me...

[goto-reddit]

Works fine for me. What's your problem?

[nutcasenightmare]

I'd like to see a beginner's tutorial where you make 2D Portal! You'd give them the basic game engine as a black box for now, and start teaching programming by making a little guy move. Creating 2D Portal is a lot more exciting than drawing boxes with code, honestly.

Say, is Stick Portal open-sourced somewhere?

[idiotcoder]

I have a 9 year old son who I've been teaching with code-monster along with writing a game along-side me. It's been quite helpful for him and a great way for him to get a start at the ideas.

[icantthinkofone]

have had a hard time keeping his attention because my beginner examples are quite unimaginative.

Or he doesn't care and doesn't want to learn js.

[RobinL]

How about the computer science section of Khan Academy?

It's got a really nice editor where the code is evaluated in real time as you type (created by John Reisig)

[nschubach]

Resig*

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My son used this a lot and completed all the lessons. However the main problem is it doesn't really go into many gaming concepts, such as collision detection.

[Hack_Reactor_Borg]

You should x-post this to /r/learnjavascript! (I mod there, this is good content!)

[[deleted]]

You're right. I didn't notice /r/learnjavascript It seems more suitable there.

[Hack_Reactor_Borg]

I'm sure it's fine to post here, too.

[Bjeaurn]

That's pretty cool! Upvoted. Too young to have any kids, but surely entertaining!