Hi! I'm looking for a book to give to my younger brother as a birthday present. He is 13 years old, had some experience with logo (but not much, so he knows about simple instructions and loops, but not about, say, algorithms), and is fairly comfortable around computers. He sometimes mentions that he would like to learn programming, but so far my only attempt to teach him was an absolute failure, due mostly to my total lack of pedagogical skills. (I tried to start with the concept of abstract objects, with predictable effects...)
What I am looking for is a book thats: 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can learn from it without my continous assistence. (Of course, I can answer questions, but the idea is that I don't want to walk him through all of it.) 2) doesn't look like it is teaching programming -- it should be more like "playing with the computer, and having fun" style, with the "learning programming" being a sort of side-effect. Ideally it would use python, but thats not that strict a requirement, squeak or logo might be acceptable, as well. (Although I'm prejudiced towards python, that being my favourite programming language.) Similarly, being a book isn't a requirement either, so a pdf, or an online tutorial would be fine as well, although a book would be better. I tried to search for such books, but I mostly found 'now we are going to learn programming' types, and I would like something more subtle, and more motivating than that. Any suggestions? -- Abel Daniel _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
