>>>>> "KW" == Kate Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KW> I thought that too, but I've been showing my daughter and bit and KW> she seems to grok it; I think that not having to worry overmuch KW> about data types and preciseness will help them learn concepts KW> without stressing. This is also supposed to be a useful project - KW> they're building a web site for their Girl Scout group and I want KW> them to be able to use the skills they learn to enhance it. I, KW> too, learned with Logo, but I think they're beyond that. Computers KW> in school were a new experience for us, but she's been using one KW> since she was two. When I started showing her basic HTML she KW> already knew a lot of it because a chat system she uses uses raw KW> html... a good teaching perl book is 'elements of programming in perl' (from manning). it may be out of print but worth buying used IMO. it teaches programming from scratch and uses perl for the language. most other perl books assume you know some programming at some level. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
