Teaching my 7yo Daughter to Code

This evening I sat down with my daughter and showed her some basic coding. Nothing complex, just print out commands and incrementing numbers.

So I started with JavaScript…. showed how to print out questions to the end user

console.log("How many dogs does the Queen have?")

She was impressed with her self, i typed in the console.log but she handled the rest.

Nest we added a couple more questions and a title.

console.log("Queen quiz - by Jessica")
console.log("")
console.log("How many dogs does the Queen have?")
console.log("")
console.log("How many grandchildren does the Queen have?") console.log("")
console.log(How many castles does the Queen have?");

She asked how we can change colours so i quickly installed

npm install colors

and I let her choose the colours for each line and add some more questions..

var color = require('colors');

console.log("Queen quiz - by Jessica".bold)
console.log("")
console.log("How many dogs does the Queen have?".yellow)
console.log("")
console.log("How many grandchildren does the Queen have?");
console.log("")
console.log("How many castles does the Queen have?".magenta);
console.log("")
console.log("How many princesses does the Queen have?".blue);
console.log("")
console.log("How many types of dogs does the Queen have?".green);
console.log("")
console.log("How many princes deos the Queen have?".cyan);
console.log("")
console.log("Who is the Queen's Great Great Grandmother?".magenta);
console.log("")
console.log("Who is the Queen's Great Grandmother?");
console.log("")
console.log("How old is the Queen?".rainbow.bold);
console.log("")
console.log("Who is the Queen Mother?".magenta);
console.log("")

Finally we discussed how to put a number at the start of each question.

I showed her what j++ did and set j=1 and some basic string concatenation.

var color = require('colors');
j=1
console.log("Queen quiz - by Jessica".bold)
console.log("")
console.log("How many dogs does the Queen have?".yellow)
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tHow many grandchildren does the Queen have?");
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tHow many castles does the Queen have?".magenta);
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tHow many princesses does the Queen have?".blue);
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tHow many types of dogs does the Queen have?".green);
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tHow many princes deos the Queen have?".cyan);
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tWho is the Queen's Great Great Grandmother?".magenta);
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tWho is the Queen's Great Grandmother?");
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tHow old is the Queen?".rainbow.bold);
console.log("")
console.log(j++ + "\tWho is the Queen Mother?".magenta);
console.log("")

As you can see nothing majorly complex but tomorrow I think we may try and make an OXO game.

End Result.

Queen quiz - by Jessica
1 How many dogs does the Queen have?
2 How many grandchildren does the Queen have?
3 How many castles does the Queen have?
4 How many princesses does the Queen have?
5 How many types of dogs does the Queen have?
6 How many princes deos the Queen have?
7 Who is the Queen's Great Great Grandmother?
8 Who is the Queen's Great Grandmother?
9 How old is the Queen?
10 Who is the Queen Mother?