[TriLUG] Teaching Kids to Program

[Roy Vestal via TriLUG]

+1 for Python.

My kids went through "Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and 
Other Beginners" - Warren Sande, Cater Sande.

Very good book, the author wrote it with his son in mind so he could 
teach his son. The book teaches the programming concepts as well as the 
python language. He even presents that he decided to use python because 
of it's flexibility and the fact it requires identation.

Anyway, my kids loved it. I went through the book with them. Very well 
written and easy to use.

It is available at the Wake County libraries.

-Roy

On 8/17/15 10:50 AM, Scott Suehle via TriLUG wrote:
> 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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