Learn to code for kids with Scratch

Scratch is a free programming language and online community, developed by MIT, for learning to code in a very simple way.
It's designed in a way that allows kids to understand how to build their own games or just create animations or interactive stories, using interlocking blocks to represent coding concepts.

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There is also Scratch Junior, for kids from 5 to 7 years old, with blocks without words, just with symbols that the kids can associate with the coding concept.

It's fun and simple. Try it!

Google's Blocky

Scratch is a result of a collaboration between Google and MIT, and builds on Google’s Blockly technology. Blocky is a JavaScript library for building visual programming editors. It outputs syntactically correct code in the programming language of your choice.

Create 2D games in LUA and LÖVE framework

LUA is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
The best of all, it's open-source and free.

With LUA, you mark blocks of code using the syntax do and end, instead of using braces. It has about 20 reserved keywords.

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With LUA and the LÖVE framework, you can create some cool 2D Games.
The LÖVE framework is very simple. Just check out these code snippets:

Drawing text

function love.draw()
love.graphics.print("Hello World!", 400, 300)
end


Drawing an image

function love.load()
whale = love.graphics.newImage("whale.png")
end

function love.draw()
love.graphics.draw(whale, 300, 200)
end


Playing a sound

function love.load()
sound = love.audio.newSource("music.ogg", "stream")
love.audio.play(sound)
end


More tutorials can be found in the LÖVE wiki.