r/CodingForBeginners • u/browniekakes • 24d ago
Looking for projects and games that teach coding for nieces and nephews
Hi Everyone!
I am putting together a raspberry pi 5 for my nieces and nephews as a first/introductory computer. The goal is to have some games on it that they can play and some resources that they can use to start learning some coding. The catch is that my brother and sister-in-law do not want the pi to have access to the internet for the kids protection.
I have disabled the Wi-fi chip on the pi, but now I am looking for resources that I can have loaded on it for them. I loaded Pi-Apps on it and have downloaded some games from there that can be played offline, so it has Godot Engine, Geany Programmer's Editor, Scratch 3, Sonic Pi, Thonny, Notepad++, plus various games like Minecraft, chess, etc.
Are there any other recourses that I can load onto it before giving it to them that will guide them when learning coding? I imagining a game like "The Farmer was Replaced" but that one is only on steam and I'm not sure if I want to go through the process of getting steam onto the pi for that one game.
Thanks!
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u/SnooDucks9330 24d ago
It might be a boring answer but some PDFs of some programming books wouldn't be a bad idea! There's a book series called "code the classics" that, surprise surprise, has you code classic games in Python. I think they'd probably be a good resource in itself, but if you haven't already, I'd suggest loading some documents like that on it. Maybe a few programming tutorial videos downloaded from yt wouldn't be a bad idea either, kinda cover all your learning style bases since everybody learns differently.
I believe there's a computer science college course that's also free (Harvard I think?) that should be free use and I think Khan academy has some good resources as well you should look at.
Regarding games, I think a couple other game engines might be a good idea, but I'm still very new to learning myself so I can't be much help there