On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:24:45 +0800 Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hilaire> During a discussion on #debian-jr with Anne, Ben, Georges and myself Hilaire> we fall - as techno people we are - in a discussion about including Hilaire> programming language in Debian-JR Hilaire> We talk about Logo, Scheme, Basic , Python. I've found Karel The Robot to be quite interesting also, here the introduction by the author. "My first college computer class, in the fall of 1982, used `Karel the Robot' as the introduction to programming in Pascal. I found it an entertaining and useful introduction to structured programming. While structured programming has fallen out of favor in deference to object oriented programming, I still think this can be a useful introduction to computer programming. And I think that children are entertained by the idea of instructing a robot to perform a task, and then watching the robot actually follow the instructions." NB: if you want to test it, you also need to supply a word (.wld file) with the programm file (.k file): gtk/karelg samples/simple.k samples/room1.wld Hilaire -- OFSET - Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching http://www.ofset.org
