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This advice is good or bad depending on the style of your nephew. If he is really exciting about programming, then he most likely has in his head this idea of hacking away at physical lines of code rather than Alice/Squeak/Scratch.I'd suggest BlitzBasic in companion to the fantastic book Game Programming for Teens (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598635182/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...). Blitz is cross platform, extremely easy to dive into, and has a great graphics library. Or, if you want to start him out pure, I'd suggest python/pygame.
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Jan 10, 2009
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maneesh on
Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my little brother?
Ahh---sorry for the self-promotion but I really believe what I am saying: I wrote a book called Game Programming for Teens, which teenagers tend to like because it teaches them to make video games off the bat (using a modified version of BASIC), gets them interested in programming, and then helps them move on to learning more difficult languages b/c they already have some programming concepts down. The book is here http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Teens-Maneesh-Sethi/d...
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Dec 27, 2008
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maneesh on
Ask HN: Classic games?
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Teens-Maneesh-Sethi/d...I even had a tv show about teaching game programming back when I was 15 yrs old, on TechTV's call for help: http://www.courseptr.com/gamedev/maneeshsethitechtv.mpg
Good times---book was a bestseller and translated into like 5 languages. Good times for a 14 yr-old :)