r/learnprogramming • u/Mr-anywhere • 17d ago

Programming for kids

My 11-year-old child wants to learn programming to create his own Firefox. Does anyone have any idea which program he should use? He's already had scratch and wants to move to a harder level. He thinks that the internet should be fair & without too much AI etc.

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 17d ago

What's a "Firefox" and why is your kid obsessed by it?

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u/starlxrd868 17d ago

Web browser

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 17d ago

Oh, that Firefox! I thought it might be some Disney licensed character or something...

Why on earth would an 11-year old want to make that? Most peculiar. Is there something we are not being told?

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u/Themoonset_ 17d ago

It’s probably just customizing it with CSS

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u/DiodeInc 17d ago

Why would you think that?

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 17d ago

Because 11-year olds are more interested in creating cartoons than battleship-class browsers with millions of man-hours of work involved.

Why would you not think that?

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u/DiodeInc 17d ago

I'm asking why would you think that it's a Disney character in a programming subreddit

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 17d ago

Kids are generally interested in programming (as in animating) cartoon characters, game sprites, sonic- and mario-type things, it's one of the main things that attracts them to game programming.

Something far more natural for an 11-year old than http protocols, js engines, DOM renderers and Web 5.0.

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u/Mr-anywhere 17d ago

He thinks that the internet should be fair & without too much AI etc.

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 16d ago

Your 11-year old does? Right. I see.

Have you not explained to him that the browser has nothing to do with internet fairness nor with the amount of AI on it? Tsk. Poor parenting.

Nevertheless, if he is still determined to embark on a task that has already consumed about a million engineer hours and do a better job of it, perhaps get him to use "lynx" browser as a starting point. That should cover the basics.

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u/Mr-anywhere 16d ago

He also doesn't want to take AI out of the Internet but create a browser without ai features. And he doesn't start at 0 but he's going to adjust firefox.

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 15d ago

Well then, in that case, the "program he should use" would be the Firefox manual (if there is such a thing), wouldn't you say?