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Ask HN: Appropriate toy for a 1-year old girl that may lead to programming

I'm going to the 1st birthday party of the daughter of one of my friends. We're not required to bring presents, but in view of all the talk about how turning girls (and later women) away from computers and startups is something that happens when they're still children, I wonder - is there a toy that I could buy her at this very early age that would have the slightest influence on that?

If she was 8, or even 6, perhaps 5, some sort of computing device (perhaps a Raspberry Pi) would be suitable... at one, though?

Any ideas?

PS: I think it should be something that is fun and useable immediately, not "buy her this so she'll be able to use it in 3 years"...

17 points swombat 12 years ago 67 comments

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