hi On 12/1/06, Kate Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So... say you were going to teach a child (or several children) of > about ten, reasonable technical aptitude, to program using Perl. How > would you go about it?
well, the main thing would be to connect the programming to another interest. let's say they like harry potter books. you could work on a cgi script to return an arbitrary harry potter quote. all the other stuff [checking input values, randomly accessing arrays] would come out of that. so my big suggestion is to leverage their existing interests as much as possible. good luck!! -- \js [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
