[TriLUG] Teaching Kids to Program

[Scott Suehle via TriLUG]

Python - No Starch Press makes a great bunch of books aimed at kids.
Scratch - Look for the Super Scratch book

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:45 AM Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> So if you were going to teach your kids some starter programming, what
> language and/or ide would you use?
>
> The oldest 2 *ages 9 and 10 are the two I am targeting at the moment.  And
> before anyone gets into the ide or not to ide thing, the reason I mention
> that is even though I am a person who will still do a web page in vim I do
> appreciate what an ide for creating a GUI can bring to the table,
> especially when learning.
>
> So for languages that offer good starting points I was thinking one of the
> following:
>
> FreeBasic
> Logo (I am assuming there has to be some Logo implementation on Linux)
> Python
> Golang (probably not a good first choice but I do a lot in Go lately so we
> can "learn together"
>
> I think I am leaning towards python, I think one of the things that makes
> me lean towards that is libraries like pygame which I think if they take to
> this will be right up their alley.
>
> If it matters the computer's in question are running either Mint 17 or
> Debian Jessie.  I am kind of halfway between the migration of moving Mint
> out in favor of Jessie in the house.
>
> Ken
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