Programming 4 Kids
Even if you don’t become a professional programmer (most people don’t), there are reasons to learn programming:
■ The most important is because you want to! Programming can be very interesting and
rewarding, as a hobby or a profession.
■ If you’re interested in computers and want to know more about how they work and
how you can make them do what you want, that’s a good reason to learn about programming.
■ Maybe you want to make your own games, or maybe you can’t find a program that
does exactly what you want or need it to do, so you want to write your own.
Computers are everywhere these days, so there’s a good chance you’ll use computers
at work, at school, or at home—probably all three. Learning about programming will
help you understand computers better in general.
For kids especially, one of the most fun parts of using a computer is playing games, with
graphics and sound. We’re going to learn how to make our own games and do lots of things
with graphics and sound as we go along.
