On 2006-12-01 11.27.54 -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Kate Wood 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? I'm doing some lessons for my daughter and her > > friends for the spring,and need some further input. They're not quite > > of an age where handing them the camel book and saying "go for it" is > > realistic, but they're pretty self-motivated. > > I seem to remember that there was some good "Python for kids" tutorials > out there, as well as Scheme/Logo.
I taught 6th, 7th, and 8th graders with http://htdp.org/ . If you want to hear tips about this from people who have done it far too much, I recommend these mailing lists: https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/teachgroup http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme -- Mike Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mike-burns.com _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
