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by wiradikusuma·4y ago·view on hn ↗
I can't get my son to get excited with Scratch :(

Every time we open RPi, and I start opening Scratch, he will say, "Daddy, how about we do this" while taking over the mouse and opening a game.

When I'm not looking he'll open Chrome and play YouTube.

To be fair, once we're in Scratch, I don't even know what to do with it.

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I am not a parent, by I think there are kids that are interested in computers and programming, and kids that are not. That's the divide between users and makers. That does not mean they can't be creative with something else.

So it's a good thing to try to show them how the magic happens, but being too persistent is pointless.

Try the Minecraft Education Edition coding tools (uses Make:code, which is much like scratch, but a lot higher ceiling). There's other cool make:code options too, or there's straight minecraft command mode...