Re: Brin: BASIC for kids

2006-10-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Brin wrote: > > Thanks Alberto. Hoping kidbasic will do some good. > But there isn't a Mac version - not yet. > Now an alert to all brinellers! > > Catch the premiere of my NEW HISTORY CHANNEL SHOW -- > “The ArchiTechs!” > My cable got The History Channel just a few months ago - but I

Re: Brin: BASIC for kids

2006-10-10 Thread David Brin
Thanks Alberto. Hoping kidbasic will do some good. Now an alert to all brinellers! Catch the premiere of my NEW HISTORY CHANNEL SHOW -- “The ArchiTechs!” PREMIERE: Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 PM REPEATS: October 12 at 3 AM & October 14 at 11:00 AM (See: http://www.history.com/shows.do?

Brin: BASIC for kids

2006-10-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
From... http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/ : KidBASIC is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow- control works. It has a