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#154375 26-Oct-2014 09:02
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My eldest is nearly 6 (going on 16) and loves playing around with my computer. Typing seems to be a novelty compared to touch screen tablets. Her school seems to use Macs, and I've got an old Macbook (circa 2007) that still works well enough other than a poked battery. I thought I would repurpose this as "her" computer. I'm looking for recommendations for educational / edutainment software suitable for a 6 year old. Something to encourage familiarly with the keyboard would be ideal. Any kind of introduction to programming would also be good - I have very fond memories of hypercard from my days at school, although that would have been more 8/9/10.

She's still a bit young for the internet, so I'll probably just disable internet access. So I don't (yet) need any kind of nanny software.

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  #1162415 26-Oct-2014 14:37
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Tux4Kids: http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/. TuxMath, TuxTyping, etc.

The prebuilt OSX dmg have not been updated for some time. There may be later builds available from an OSX package manager, but dmg is very convenient.



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  #1166635 1-Nov-2014 18:58
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Scratch is an awesome way to get into programming.  I used to be really into this when I was 8-10.

http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/

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