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wwortiz on Sept 5, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Teaching programming to a 10 year old, and...

Umm well if you have the money go for lego mindstorms, if I was a kid again I'd want to play with legos and robots. (Hell they are still cool)

teaspoon on Sept 5, 2010 | [–]

And if the kid gets bored of the visual programming language that goes with Mindstorms, try setting up NQC for him/her:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C

p858snake on Sept 5, 2010 | [–]

You need to be a kid to play with lego (or mindstormers)?

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