On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Patrick <patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org>
wrote:
> Hi Diego, Hi Glenn
>
> He will turn 10 soon. He has a severe disability but is quite good with
> computers and could type the whole alphabet, compensating for
> uppercase/lowercase at 18 months of age.
>
I would suggest to start with Squeak <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak> and
Etoys <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoys_(programming_language)>. There
is a talk by Alan Kay at Ted
<https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful_idea_about_ideas?language=en#t-955241>
which has a brief demo of it. From what I understand, kids can do some real
learning with it.
> I thought I could start with some custom commands to launch
> videos/webpages he like. I was thinking we could explore the math command
> to tinker with math and I could introduce him to some custom commands that
> take an argument or two.
>
> Scratch might work, I considered this in the past and then forgot about
> it. The thing is with fish I could write commands that would better suit
> his interests.
>
> I have been writing an assisted speech device for him and his sister for
> sometime. I have failed many times but right now i am looking at a
> Javascript/HTML5 to emit words on clicks and a text user interface for a
> more complicated application to emit full sentences with proper grammar.
>
> Thanks-Patrick
>
>
>
>
> On 01/24/2016 10:11 AM, Diego Zamboni wrote:
>
> You don't say how old your son is, but I'd go for the tutorials at
> code.org or Scratch (scratch.mit.edu), which are far more structured,
> visual and geared for kids. My 7- and 9-year olds love them.
>
> --Diego
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Patrick <patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org>
> <patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I thinking of introducing programming to my son. I am reading javascript
> for kids but it seems to me that many of these concepts would be easier
> in fish and a shell might be an even easier place to tinker than a
> browser/text editor.
>
> I am looking for the lowest barrier to entry.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Patrick
>
>
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