Ask HN: What do you do to get your kids to programming?
2 by vletal | 3 comments on Hacker News.
At the beginning of the century there was a thriving web community doing basic HTML + CSS. If you were a "real programmer" you could convert your page to PHP and get into algorithms and databases. I know some peers who started like that, same as me. You could easily create a "professional level" web page at the time. Teenagers were building web pages for pocket money. Nowadays, we have Medium, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, ... Mostly noone needs a custom blog. What do kids these days to start with programming? Since I got a kid I was wondering what I can do for him to show him the marvels of that world. Everything seems to be less accessible than anything from the time of my childhood. Including stuff made for that purpose, like RPis. What did you do to tech programming to your kids?