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Daughter Moving on from Scratch…what’s next (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Rhs519@lemmy.ca to c/programming

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Hello Everyone,

I’ve got a 10 year old daughter who loves making games in scratch, but she’s starting to run into that boundary where it stops working for you, and starts working against you.

She wants to make an adventure game in the vein of a trimmed down “legend of Zelda: link to the past”

I’ve looked at snap and gamefroot as potential next steps. Would consider a “true” language like JavaScript or python, but I’m worried she would be daunted if the ramp is too steep (maybe with the correct libraries/frameworks?) The immediate feedback and low ramp scratch offers are still important.

Anyone have any wisdom to share? Or point me to something I’ve missed?

Thanks

—- Update:

After some good discussion with my daughter, we’re going to try gamefroot (a proprietary, enhanced scratch) first.

She really wants to check out Gadot too.

Thanks everyone for the thoughtful comments and the help.

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[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

if you were to teach her a "true" language I would say python and introduce turtle or some like that at first then as she learns python more and more you could look at showing her pygame albeit kinda advanced personally the basics aren't to bad

[–] Rhs519@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks - I’ll check out Turtle. It’s come up in some of my reading.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

I second this, I began in javascript on code.org and spent hours on their turtle and I was probably 10-11 at the time. Python is relaxed with typing and the syntax is visually easy to tell what belongs to what, which makes it a good candidate. There are simple ways to move after the turtle, such as pygame.