> SECRET SAUCE HERE: The key here was to actually write the program even if I was sure I had nothing to learn from it because the feature in question was so conceptually simple: you think you know something, but then when you go to actually type it in, you find out whether know it was well as you thought you did.
This is what I've done in my admittedly small time of programming. I have Learn Python the Hard Way and whenever I'm in between my personal projects, I grab one of the beginning chapters and just redo it. Rote memorization is not easy for me, but the more I do something over and over, the more engrained it is and the easier it is for me to recall and build on later for different things.
Yeah, I'm going to start finding games that are educational in different topics to encourage learning that her and I can both play. Have you had any success with other educational board games with your little one? I looked into Scratch JR and the robot turtles game which I'm going to get her for her 5th birthday.
Thank you for this. My daughter will be 5 later this year and, I myself have started learning to code. I feel like it will be good time with my kid teaching and helping her. I even built her a game with tkinter to help with math and reading that we can do together.
This is what I've done in my admittedly small time of programming. I have Learn Python the Hard Way and whenever I'm in between my personal projects, I grab one of the beginning chapters and just redo it. Rote memorization is not easy for me, but the more I do something over and over, the more engrained it is and the easier it is for me to recall and build on later for different things.