[TriLUG] Teaching Kids to Program

[Tim Jowers via TriLUG]

js + phonegap. cool result. easy. visual.


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:45:09 -0400
> 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?
>
> Python.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Great choice!
>
> > 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.
>
> Another thing you can do is teach them to program quadratic problem
> solvers. Especially ones that work on trial and error. Then they can
> move on to third order equations, which are really difficult to solve
> algorithmically.
>
> My college age son had a math problem I couldn't solve, so I wrote a
> Python program to trial and error the thing. Once we knew the answer,
> we could reverse-engineer the process to derive it.
>
> SteveT
>
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