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		theshrike79 on Jan 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a... If we're talking a complete beginner with maybe only "hello world" level skills I recommend the Lego BOOST set: https://www.lego.com/en-fi/product/boost-creative-toolbox-17... It teaches you step by step the basics of programming (loops, function calls etc) using a scratch-like programming language.

oidar on Jan 17, 2023 [–]

Any alternative to this? I think lego stopped making it.

theshrike79 on Jan 17, 2023 | [–]

the Mindstorms Robot Inventor is a bit more advanced (Scratch-like vs Scratch Jr on the Boost) and twice as expensive: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/robot-inventor-51515

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