Ruby for Kids: Hackety Hack
I decided to introduce our 11-year old daughter to Ruby today, but I wanted to do it in a kid-friendly way, rather than a crusty, adulty way. So, who else in the Ruby firmament does a body turn to when in need of coding entertainment – you guessed it – why the lucky stiff and his hacktastic Hackety Hack.
Hackety is a Ruby coding environment aimed at kids of all ages. It has cartoons, an interactive tutorial, help pages and other things, all wrapped up in language pitched at your youngster. You can download it for Windows (XP, Vista) and Linux at the moment; a Mac OSX version is in the works.
This is a great resource and a fun introduction to the world of programming with Ruby. Let your kids loose with it and see what they create. It certainly put a smile on my daughter’s face.
