Yes! There's lots of wonderful stuff out there for kids to learn programming nowadays - I highly recommend Scratch (scratch.mit.edu), a kid-friendly graphical programming language, and also Khan Academy's programming lessons (https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/cs), as well as Hopscotch (https://www.gethopscotch.com/) a free iPad app similar to Scratch. Scratch also has a companion website for teachers with accompanying lesson plans and worksheets at http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ And if your child is interested in things on the hardware side as well, there are some great toys out there like Little Bits http://littlebits.cc/ and Makey Makey http://makeymakey.com/
(I am also an instructor at NYCDA - Hi Zach! Hope you don't mind I hijacked this question! :-) )
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Yes! There's lots of wonderful stuff out there for kids to learn programming nowadays - I highly recommend Scratch (scratch.mit.edu), a kid-friendly graphical programming language, and also Khan Academy's programming lessons (https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/cs), as well as Hopscotch (https://www.gethopscotch.com/) a free iPad app similar to Scratch. Scratch also has a companion website for teachers with accompanying lesson plans and worksheets at http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ And if your child is interested in things on the hardware side as well, there are some great toys out there like Little Bits http://littlebits.cc/ and Makey Makey http://makeymakey.com/
(I am also an instructor at NYCDA - Hi Zach! Hope you don't mind I hijacked this question! :-) )
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