I'd say Scratch is the #1 way kids to day are introduced to programming For parent that have some 8bit experience, Pico-8 (LUA) is also relatively popular. It's basically like running an Apple 2, Atari 800, Commodore 64 as if it booted into LUA instead of Basic. You can trivially draw things, and peak and poke bytes into "Screen memory" if you want to feel like you're "touching the hardware" JavaScript is also... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

You can always look at the help videos by Shiffman at (the coding train) Specifically: help guide to p5js. Source: 12 months ago

> how do I get him learning programming in a fun way? Processing / P5.js can be pretty fun to learn. You use a real programming language to create art and animations. With little code you can get a circle on the screen, then making it move, then following your mouse, then adding other shapes, then changing colour depending on some event… It’s conductive to experimentation and a way to gradually introduce concepts.... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

Another great free site https://thecodingtrain.com/ to have in your pocket :D have fun out there! Source: over 1 year ago

a lot of the techniques learned from: https://thecodingtrain.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

I'm looking for resources on this too. I recently started working through this book [1], which might be a good place to start. In the introduction to that, the author also mentions this site [2] and this book [3]. [1] https://natureofcode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

Yup, the KISS principle. As a frontend engineer I'm quite used to including a TypeScript compiler or transpiler, package bundler, linting tools and let's not forget a minifier. When I was reading the 'nature of code' in preperation for the jam, I almost scoffed, have we arrived in the stone age? when learning that all the examples were just a library loaded from a CDN and unprocessed JavaScript. But that's what I... - Source: dev.to / 27 days ago

You might find your answers in The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman - https://natureofcode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

One of my favorite books I read as beginner, was Dan's The Nature of Code book, originally written in Java,. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

I like https://natureofcode.com/ for basic stuff (the section on autonomous agents and flocking is really good). Source: about 1 year ago