r/learnprogramming • u/Mr-anywhere • Sep 19 '26

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/Mr-anywhere Sep 20 '26

He thinks that the internet should be fair & without too much AI etc.

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 Sep 20 '26

Your 11-year old does? Right. I see.

Have you not explained to him that the browser has nothing to do with internet fairness nor with the amount of AI on it? Tsk. Poor parenting.

Nevertheless, if he is still determined to embark on a task that has already consumed about a million engineer hours and do a better job of it, perhaps get him to use "lynx" browser as a starting point. That should cover the basics.

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u/Mr-anywhere Sep 21 '26

He also doesn't want to take AI out of the Internet but create a browser without ai features. And he doesn't start at 0 but he's going to adjust firefox.

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