@Jeremy,

Yes Graphics and Colors are where kids get interested, much more than the math-y stuff! I think it's great to show some of the code behind an app.

I'm looking forward to getting to the EIWL chapter on using CloudDeploy[] since we'll be able to start making apps that she can use outside of the programming lab environment and maybe share with her friends

And I'd love to help with a book, I'll start keeping better notes!

Thanks David, this clears things up. Thank you again for sharing your experience. Looking forward for more from you in the future.

Nice! As a child I was injured on a Friday the 13th in October and was amused that it happened on such an unlucky day. Now I know it was also a full moon!

I love this. When editing Hands-On Start 3 with my seven year old, we tested the graphics chapter. Kids love playing with images on their iPad apps. Of course, it's a bit easier to do so with phone and tablet filters and other graphics APIs, but it was a nice way to show her what I do, and to show her that behind all of these apps is a mouthful of programming.

Of course with the WL, it's a whole lot less programming.

I've wanted to take her through EIWL, but maybe I'll wait till she's 8 too.

Frankly, I have trouble applying Table, so I applaud your efforts!

@David Ameneyro if you keep notes on your adventures through EIWL with your daughter, I'd love to work with you on a book project.

Ahmed, not to overly tout our new products, but you might be interested in picking up a copy of our new book, Hands-on Start to Wolfram Alpha Notebook Edition. It's targeted to bring people in from Wolfram Alpha into programming with a lot more natural language from Wolfram Alpha thrown in.

https://www.wolfram-media.com/products/hands-on-start-to-wolfram-alpha-notebook-edition.html

What a nice idea and nice way to spend time with your kids! I got hooked. Here is a bit different approach to get more dates to get spooked :-)

I heard quite a few stories when people woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare just to see how the "huge full moon" was staring at them through the window and get a bit more spooked :-) Or how "enormous that full moon was above horizon". Interestingly enough in many cases the day before or the day after the instant called "full moon" will give people same visual and emotional impressions, because the moon size is almost identical visually. See the 3 images below for the days before, during and after full moon.

So the idea is that people are not usually impressed by a calendar date but by the full moon size and sight. So I thought I will find al those FRI 13th days that land not only the day of fool moon, but also the day before or after. Beware these things depend on TimeZone -- that you might want to set like DateObject[{year, 10, 13}, TimeZone -> -8] for example. Wolfram Language often picks up your TimeZone automatically. So different people data might be a bit different.

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