Camping. Tomcat. Hackety Hack: Ruby for kids. In response to Friday’s post about Scratch, the visual programming language designed for kids, Ryan Briones writes: In the same vein there’s also Hackety Hack. I found out about it via the Makezine Blog – [via] Link. HacketyHack is a Ruby-based development environment and tutorial lessons designed to make it easy for kids age 13 and up to write useful software. The guiding principle is to “make the most common code very easy and short.
Downloading an MP3 should be one line of code. On the subject of hackerly passtimes for kids, you should check out The Little Coder’s Predicament, an essay written by the author of HackeyHack back in 2003. In the 1980s, you could look up from your Commodore 64, hours after purchasing it, with a glossy feeling of empowerment, achieved by the pattern of notes spewing from the speaker grille in an endless loop. So, there’s Mindstorms for future roboticists, and there’s Scratch and HacketyHack for young coders.
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