jackdoe / programming-for-kids

book for parents and kids.

PROGRAMMING FOR KIDS BOOK - book.md

The book is work in progress, so far I spent about 15 months adding to it, and teaching my daughter 2-3 times a week.

If you have any ideas or feedback, make a pull request, or send me an email to [email protected]

Link to the book: book.md

Example page:

Other projects

While writing the book we also developed few other projects:

• 4917 - card game to teach kids machine code
• unix pipe game - card game to teach kids basic unix commands
• unix pipe game expansion: process-substitution - card game to teach kids about process substitution
• c-pointer-game - card game to teach about pointers and values
• programming-time - card game to teach kids about reading code
• punk0 - punk zero: card game, like uno but with strategy
• runlength-for-kids - runlength encoding for kids puzzle card game
• punk - online game turn based python to move pieces on the board
• overflow - RISCV assembly board game, win by executing buffer overflow
• rocksolid - December 2023 egg drop challenge
• calc - single button (morse code) calculator
• panic - one mischief per card

license

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

programming-for-kids's Issues

Translate the book into other languages

Hi, I think that "Programming for Kids" should be translated into other languages to make it more accessible for those who don't speak English. This could be included in some sort of to-do list.

Thanks
WebSnke

programming for kids-easy-35-line 15

it should be:

while a > b:

instead of:

whille a > 0:

Caven

Page 2 : rises -> raises

In the example in page 2, rises should be replaced by raises:

$ cat 03.txt | grep "rises" | wc -l

because the rest of the text assumes it reads raises.

By the way, this command is a useless use of cat and double quotes are not needed so it should also be replaced with:

$ grep raises 03.txt | wc -l

In the same page, conntents should be replaced by contents.

Is the 'WARING' typo here deliberate?

programming-for-kids/projects/panic/main.py

Line 34 in 2790ad4

{'WARNING! WARING! WARNING!'.center(40)}

Link not working [punkx.org]

The link to the source of the expansion “Process Substitution” on your site seems to be broken.

404 error: The 'jackdoe/programming-for-kids' repository doesn't contain the 'projects/unix-pipe-game/ext-01' path in 'master'.

PS: I really enjoy your card games. Thank you for creating them. :)

Suggestions for "UNIX PIPES" game

I have a few suggestions for the "UNIX PIPES" games that are all pretty minor so I thought I'd add them into a single issue.

• Card 02 has an example cat 03.txt | grep "rises" | wc -l but then the explanation has grep "raises" .... It might be good to either turn "rises" into "raises" or vice versa to avoid confusion.
• The addition of line numbers to card 03 might help with some of the "win" conditions (print the 7th line for example)
• It might be helpful to indicate in the rules card that when presented with a choice of options (say in card 06) you must pick exactly one
• It might be helpful to indicate in the rules card that options in red are specified by the player (once when the card is played and fixed after the card is in play)

I'm also a bit confused as to what the round structure looks like. Reading the RULES card (01), I interpret it as each player takes a single card from the top of the deck. The youngest player then picks a task and players try to use their single cards to complete the task.
Once a single round has proceeded with each player playing a single card, the youngest then changes the task, leaving the cards already played in place and the players are then supposed to try to add on additional cards to complete the task.

Was this the intent? An example game might help clarify how you intended the game to be played.

some typos

Cool idea for a game! Thanks for taking the time to make cards and all. Just spotted some typos in the cards pdf. I would make a PR but since it's only the pdf that's a bit hard. Anyways, there's "conntents" with double n, you're grepping for "raises" but I think you mean "rises" and so on. I'd let someone have another read through as some of these might be game changing ... pun intended :)

Cheers mate

Thank you + Chips

Just found about this book because a friend sent me a link to "Overflow". This is so inspiring!

My daughter has been playing with breadboard and LEDs since she was 2 yo, but that's been pretty sporadic - whenever she finds some interesting hardware on my table, I try to explain to her how it works / how to use it, and let her play with it.

I'm now working on Tiny Tapeout, which enables people to design their own digital chip (from a "simple" seven segment decoder up to a functional RISC-V processor), and we the physical chip manufactured. If this can be interesting for your daughter, I can send more info and would also love to give her a free slot.

.py to PDF

any interest in a script to convert .py files to a highlighted code pdf for printing? it would create a new pdf with the same name next to each code file.