# Advice on how to start my son off in Flash

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**Created:** [January 8, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-how-to-start-my-son-off-in-flash/248444 "2008-01-08T09:27:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-how-to-start-my-son-off-in-flash/248444/1 "2008-01-08T09:27:06Z")

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I’ve got an 8 yr old son who loves playing computer games and designing games on paper.  
I am a professional programmer using visual basic mainly for .net web applications.  
I am keen to introduce my son to simple programming, but to be honest [vb.net](http://vb.net) is going to be very boring introduction for him and I don’t want to put him off.  
He likes playing flash games online, but I have zero knowledge on how to go about starting him off with helping him write simple games and learning programming.  
I have got experience in writing games a long time ago in Basic and machine code on older machines, so think I could help him along.  
I think Flash could be the way to get him started.

My question is, what do I need to get to start him off from the very beginning in writing simple games and learning how to program in Flash?  
I really have no knowledge, so any help appreciated, eg what software editor do I need? Any good books? etc…  
Just nice and simple stuff to begin with such as pong or snake or any old basic games hopefully to give him the bug. I love programming and I’d like to get him hooked too (good job prospects for the future…)

Many thanks