Choose a laptop for an older child to code with

Grimmfamily

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Dec 9, 2014
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My 11 year old has has two brief coding classes and I want to encourage his interest by getting him a laptop he can code with for Christmas. Any recommendations? What requirements would I be looking for?
Thanks!
 
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Get something that WON'T play games very good, otherwise he will probably use it to game. An entry software development system doesn't require anything very special. Maybe even buy a used laptop and put a Linux distro on it. Easy to run a web server and do web development that way. Maybe even look at the requirements for an android emulator environment.

kanewolf

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Get something that WON'T play games very good, otherwise he will probably use it to game. An entry software development system doesn't require anything very special. Maybe even buy a used laptop and put a Linux distro on it. Easy to run a web server and do web development that way. Maybe even look at the requirements for an android emulator environment.
 
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