Coding summer camps

[John Marshall]

Hi Geeks,

Can anyone recommend a coding summer day camp? 2 boys, one into design and
graphics, the other starting to write code -wants to learn JavaScript &
flash. Both aged 12.

They live over in Sunnyvale, open to anything over there or this side of the
hill.

Appreciate any recommendations.


John Marshall

[Peggy Dolgenos]

My kids did ID Tech Camp up at UCSC and at Stanford. 

It was not super high-focus; a lot of the kids spent most of the time playing computer games; but they did learn programming. Plus, my husband and I got some time alone.

--Peggy Dolgenos

[Nicholas Stock]

Well, I need a break from code. 

I started spending my whole life writing software around that age, so its cool to see future generations getting ready for action!  

Though I don't have a specific answer to the question posed, I figured my experience might be useful. 

Its a long road, but for me, it was an organic one - no classes - until much later, not much structure,  just cool communities willing to spend some time helping a kid or two.

What I intuitively focused on to continually make myself a better engineer was finding great mentors in or around my environments.

Ultimately, for anyone with a real passion for engineering, even at that young age,  wether it be UX or software, all they need is a good book or tutorial, something to get the gears going. The rest, should come organically, when the time comes.

Here is the book I've recommended in the past, for  software engineering focused minds: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Programming-Premier-Press-Development/dp/1592002056

My first tutorial ever in development was building a pac-man using quickBasic. It was fun, because it taught some very basic "this is how games our built". I always say I became an engineer the moment I read the line that made the packman move across the screen. "X = X + 1" [or whatever the qbasic syntax may be]

Nick

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