[TriLUG] Teaching Kids to Program

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG wrote:

>>> So if you were going to teach your kids some starter programming, what
>>> language and/or ide would you use?

I taught a 12yr old python for about 2yrs.

http://www.austintek.com/#computer_class

Alice is a gui oriented way of teaching programming. It was designed for 
teaching girls as mostly you're manipulating images of people in daily life.
Susan Roger at Duke teaches it in summer courses (or she used to).

Joe

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