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p5.js courses for kids
Khan Academy
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2024 · score 0.7
Khan Academy's free beginner-oriented courses teaching p5.js, a creative coding library, aimed at kids learning to make digital art and explore math and physics through code.
Commenters call the Khan Academy p5 courses brilliant for kids and say they have no ceiling compared with Scratch, though the commenter frames p5 as a fun creative tool rather than production coding.
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I think this is missing them point of p5js. Khan Academy has brilliant kids courses on p5. A bright first grader can learn it.
P5 is not designed to solve the same problem as D3. It's for creative coding. It's what kids did on Logo, BASIC, or an a graphing calculator. For that, is brilliant.
It's for a weekend playing making digital art.
It's for teaching math and physics.
It's not something anyone could, would, or should use for any production code. You can't do a11y, i18n, responsiveness, or a million other annoyances that come with real-world coding. It's not a work framework.
It's there for FUN.
(And if you have kids and the to help them out, it's absolutely better than Scratch; marginally slower to get going, but no ceiling)