On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]>wrote:
> I want to gauge my 6 year old daughter's interest in programming. She > seems fascinated with what I do... If she is interested, I would like to > introduce her to the joy of programming. Any recommendations for a first > programming language? My first choice would be BASIC with which I learnt > programming some 24 years back. Any better choices? A language which will > be a foundation for her to explore and make better choices later and > a language which is not imposing and is fun? > > Thanks to everyone who gave their inputs. I will go through the list of options and keep the list posted about how it went. There seems to be an interesting mix of options. Especially the remark between "GOTO" and "Intended code" is interesting. Regards, Arun http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/ "கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு" - ஔவையார் Known is a drop, Unknown is an ocean _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
