Tonight I sat down with my daughter after playing a few games together. She then asked:

Dad, How do you make Apps?

So we sat down together and I showed her how to write โ€œHello Worldโ€ in Go โ€“ I instructed while she typed all the code in VS Codium (complete with NeoVim and vi key bindings) and then she built the program with go build and ran it ๐Ÿ‘Œ

Then she wanted more! So I say down and quickly built a classic โ€œnumber guessingโ€ game and progressively added more features and changed the rules until we got to a point where she exclaimed:

This is pretty fun! Iโ€™m playing this game on my iPad but this game is more fun!

I asked her whether it was because we made it together:

Yup

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