> Most importantly, browsing projects shows you what’s possible. A kid begins by playing games, starts to get curious, and next thing you know, they’re changing the code to give themselves extra lives.
This is actually the driver for a lot of kids to learn programming. Neopets and Myspace allowed you to customize your profile with HTML, Minecraft allows you to make mods in Java, Roblox has an entire game studio that leverages Lua. Kids see something they want to be able to do, and they do it!
The steepness of the learning curve does matter, but searching "how to make a roblox game" into YouTube goes quite a long ways these days
This is actually the driver for a lot of kids to learn programming. Neopets and Myspace allowed you to customize your profile with HTML, Minecraft allows you to make mods in Java, Roblox has an entire game studio that leverages Lua. Kids see something they want to be able to do, and they do it!
The steepness of the learning curve does matter, but searching "how to make a roblox game" into YouTube goes quite a long ways these days