I don't know if school programming classes do this, but kids like writing games so much that if I were teaching one, I'd just have them write games for the first several years. (Plus you can sneak practically anything into games.)
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Even better, getting them writing mods for the games they already love; Minecraft, Bots (for social media), etc.
Interesting point. Maybe the best way to encourage kids to program is to invent a game designed to be modified...
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Google Blocks is just one example of this. They have incremental problems, starting with things like moving a character in a map
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Working on it :) Add to that the ability to easily interact with the game (i.e. play it) via a program "AI". So kids can design games, play games, mod games, and develop AI to play games. Apply that formula across a wide range of games.
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Never written a mod but is that actually programming? Aren't you usually just changing a txt or xml or yaml file or something like that?
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minecraft red stone
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Modifying a game you love is definitely a great motivation! I learned to program at 15 yo by working for a private WoW server. It was buggy and at some point I wasn't having fun playing anymore. Instead, I had fun learning to program to debug spells and quests.
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There are lots of them! The person who mentored me like 12 years ago made me play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobot Later I loved playing GMod, it had Expression - a mod that allowed you to code things that used sensors etc, it didn't have tasks, but was the most fun! Shoutout
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