[osdcmy-public] Re: CodePlex Foundation

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
My acceptance toward Microsoft is like any other vendors in OSS. Redhat, Novell, SUN, Oracle, IBM and many more. We will cooperate and be friend. But there are still parut "luka lama". Hehehe... On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:12 PM, red1 wrote: > sweemeng ng wrote: > > Beware of Greeks Bearing Gif

[osdcmy-public] Re: CodePlex Foundation

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik red1
sweemeng ng wrote: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel wrote: http://www.codeplex.org/index.aspx It is ok if you open the gift first and kill the bugs :) --~--~-~--~~~--

[osdcmy-public] Re: CodePlex Foundation

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik sweemeng ng
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel < linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.codeplex.org/index.aspx > > September 10, 2009 > > The CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit foundation formed with the > mission of enabling the exchange of code and

[osdcmy-public] CodePlex Foundation

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
http://www.codeplex.org/index.aspx September 10, 2009 The CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit foundation formed with the mission of enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities, launched today, September 10, 2009. Incorporated as a 501.c6 no

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik red1
Thanks for the coolio link. My 9 yr old son enjoy its challenge. <--- actually i yang interested to play more! edthix wrote: Hi all +1 on Chris Pine's book Try this game for ur kids - robot + puzzle + programming (function / main) http://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/light-bot h

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik edthix
Hi all +1 on Chris Pine's book Try this game for ur kids - robot + puzzle + programming (function / main) http://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/light-bot hehehe On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:24:48 +0800, Kamal Fariz wrote: > > Learning to Program by Chris Pine published by the pragmatic >

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Akmal Jaafar
good approach at life... red1 wrote: > Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: > >> depends on what you want them to do. need to identify a real world >> theme first - animation / content / game ? >> > One way to look at building real skills is to look at opportunities of > exposure to real life for

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik red1
Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: > depends on what you want them to do. need to identify a real world > theme first - animation / content / game ? One way to look at building real skills is to look at opportunities of exposure to real life for hands-on experience. Anyone who is given an F1 car to lea

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Izhar Firdaus
http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=pythonJensFromKidsSeries On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: > depends on what you want them to do. need to identify a real world theme > first - animation / content / game ? > > imho, html and javascript is a good starting point to

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
depends on what you want them to do. need to identify a real world theme first - animation / content / game ? imho, html and javascript is a good starting point to build interest - mainly because it is so easy to publish on the web via blogs / cms / social networks / etc that they can show off to

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Liew BengKeat
You shld try Python. A lot has been written abt the suitability of Python for teaching programming. Check out Python-based RURPLE (http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/en/rur.htm) or Turtle Graphics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PythonTurtle) as well. Note that there are various implementations of the l

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Mohammed Firdaus
Walaikumsalam, You should consider a minimalistic and consistent programming language like Scheme. That way you'd spend less time teaching syntax and more time teaching programming. Thanks, Mohammed Firdaus On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel < linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: >

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Kamal Fariz
Learning to Program by Chris Pine published by the pragmatic programmers teaches programming basics via the Ruby language. Related, Hackety Hack provides a very engaging learning environment targeted at young programmers (also in Ruby) in a single cross- platform executable. On 23-Sep-2009, at 7

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Python + game = pygame http://www.pygame.org/ Python kod dia lebih kurang macam BASIC, tapi object oriented macam VB, tapi lebih power. Jadi saya mencadangkan Python, disertakan dengan game. Confirm budak-budak suka, dan kita boleh tengok kreativiti diaorang macam mana. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
OK tq... Hopely I have time to write something for kids regarding to programming. I have start programming since form 2 and I believe Its can be much more earlier... On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:42 PM, sweemeng ng wrote: > A more mainstream approach is to use alice > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al

[osdcmy-public] Re: Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik sweemeng ng
A more mainstream approach is to use alice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software) it is java based, so should be fine.. On the OLPC project there is 2, one is Scratch, the other is logo. I like their logo implementation because it shows programming as a block(i tested logo on my little

[osdcmy-public] Programming For Kids

2009-09-23 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
Assalamualaikum and salam sejahtera Im looking for programming language that can be easily used for kids between standard 4 till 6 and later extend to form 1 till 3. During my age (form 2 - 1986) We start learning programming using LOGO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)