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Follow @pstrawn 

He’s my neighbor and  a Highschool CS teacher

Ask him all the questions about getting your kids into coding

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Hi @pstrawn!  11 year old wants to code.  Mostly to build on Unreal engine.  The issue is what he wants to build is level 9000.  Where should he start? 

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Oh man…that’s a great question. You want to balance the satisfaction of creating something cool with the importance of learning some fundamentals. I’ve only done a bit of Unity and Godot, so I’m not familiar with the Unreal tutorials. I will say my favorite beginner YouTube channel is The Coding Train. Dan Shiffman is the Bob Ross of programming lessons. He has a video game track that’s super cool. It’s all Processing and p5.js. Visual. Colorful. Animated. Simple game engine. I always recommend starting with that or CS50 depending on age.

🙏 this is soooo helpful!  I’ll pass it on to my son.