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Yes, I just came here to get similar suggestions for my kids also. Having them some time to spend on khan academy subjects will occupy few hours in a day, but I am looking something in javascript game tutorials for my elder one as he is more interested in it. He is good with basic javascript skills. Any suggestions or pointers?


Would like to know if there are any cool projects with RPI for elementary kids, just to get them understand the importance of these mini computers. Hope they can pick up light programming too with this. Any pointers please.


Have them set up a minecraft server with spigot if you have the 4G version. And then they can do mods and even make the server available over the internet if you can set up port forwarding and stuff. Yeah, not the most programming heavy task, but it's a good example to teach kids how these services actually work.


What do your kids like to do? Any chance you could integrate a computer with it? My daughter loves to cook and dance and I haven’t found a way to integrate that with computers but she’s happy so I haven’t pressed it.


RoboCup Junior OnStage is a good example of integrating dance with computers. You can program sensors to detect triggers from humans and respond by moving props into place. There's a lot of freedom to choose what type of sensors, computers, and actuators to use. Search for videos of RoboCup OnStage to see some examples.


You could hook it up to some midi instruments


I tried that, the delay was too high to the synth. Not sure how to fix it.



Look into Kano computers. They come as set of RPi, display, case and battery. Then kids assemble their own "tablet".


There are endless possibilities. Kids would likely appreciate something like creating a console game emulator or wiring up hardware sensors to the raspberry pi.


It doesn't exist, afaik, but a Rocky's Boots would be a nice thing to have on a pi.


He works on chromebook and this studio doesn't have web version it seems. Do you have any alternative to it?


Do you have links for these both?


Thanks. Tynker looks good and will try with that.


Simple and cool!.

A bit of curious - I see your blog is hosted on github. Is this app also hosted in github? How is that achieved?


This post should be modified to Show HN, so it would be more clear.


Sorry about this, I didn't know about show HN...

I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585971


I added Show HN to this, and marked the other as a dupe. Thanks for this interesting project!


oh, great, thanks for the help :)


I clicked "Hide", I hope thats enough to deal with duplication


Hide only hides it from you. If you're still able to, you should be able to edit the post to remove the description and add the URL to point to your site. If you're no longer able to edit the submission, please contact the mods to help you to figure it out.


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Experienced developer looking for part time gigs. I can do both front end and back end, below are my skills. I am in NYC.

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Spark seems to be a good one to start. http://www.sparkjava.com/index.html


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