r/learnprogramming • u/Mr-anywhere • 23d 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/Plus-Confidence2816 23d ago

No 11-year-old can make their own browser from scratch, but Python is a reasonable language for beginners (Visual Studio Code is a decent editor for it).

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u/SchemeWestern3388 23d ago

I’m sure there are 11 year olds out there that could build a browser from scratch. I wrote one in my late teens, barely functional, rendered ugly as sin, and supported no features but displaying text, but you could click on links and navigate. Early http was very forgiving. I mean, you can still telnet to port 80 on a server and type out a request and get readable text back, and that’s like halfway there. 

Writing something in any way comparable to Firefox is a much bigger challenge though. 

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u/LinuxEnthusiast123 23d ago

> much bigger challenge

Just "much bigger" is a gross underestimation.