On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Carl Cerecke wrote: > My daughter has recently turned 6. I am keen to introduce her > to programming concepts, and vaguely remember you doing > something in this area. Do you have any suggestions for > programming languages suitable for 6 yr olds?
Yup. But make sure she's building stuff that she likes and enjoys. She (probably) won't have the math skills to build complex programs, so all you can really do is make programming seem fun. Alice: www.alice.org (and it's free---as in beer!) ToonTalk: www.toontalk.com Stagecast: www.stagecast.com AgentSheets: www.agentsheets.com Unfortunatly, no Linux stuff that I'm aware of :( hmm, except for Hands, but you'll have to ask John Pane for that (Hands is written in Java). I've used it, and it's quite good. Try one of these: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/ http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/ Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury "Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change." -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.
