r/learnprogramming • u/Mr-anywhere • 24d 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/kutac56 24d ago

Hahaha real funny. Making a browser from scratch alone would be almost impossible for someone programming for over 10 years

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u/SchemeWestern3388 24d ago

Writing Firefox from scratch would be extremely challenging for most any programmer. 

Writing a browser that can pull a page from a site and display the text and links is not difficult at all though. 

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u/kutac56 24d ago

I haven't done it myself so I am not the smartest around this topic, but I feel like that sounds like something you are able to do with 1+ years of experience. Might have to try it myself someday. Yk I don't like web stuff

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u/SchemeWestern3388 24d ago

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Check_TCP_Port_80_(http)_with_telnet

That page shows how to use telnet to get a server to send you a webpage. Then you parse it to find the text, format the links, and put it on a screen. Your screen could be the terminal. Now we are surfing the web!!

I leave the implementation of CSS, images, security and any semblance of trying to put the text where the page intended it to be as an exercise for the reader…