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Re: [school-discuss] Programming for Kids

Also Alice is great for kids. . . .
and it's programming in 3D !
(and it's FREE)
http://www.alice.org/



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-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx>
To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 8:23 am
Subject: [school-discuss] Programming for Kids



While Python (especially VPython) certainly has

merits as an environment for young programmers,

I think it's a good idea to keep in mind Etoys . . .



http://www.squeakland.org/



. . . and Scratch . . .



http://scratch.mit.edu/



. . . and BASIC-256 . . .



http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/



Overall, I believe it can be helpful to expose children

and teenagers to several diverse kinds of programming

environments, if time &c permits.



Joel