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[school-discuss] Programming for Kids
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- Subject: [school-discuss] Programming for Kids
- From: Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
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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