Programming for children

[Daryl N. McDaniel]

My 9-year-old son wanted to learn programming so I started him on Python.
It is working out fine.  He is having less problems than I ever had.
I am going to tell him about the turtle graphics module, though.  The
instant feedback from that type of
program will probably seem a lot more fun than programs to do his math
homework or make crossword
puzzles.

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Fredrik Lundh <effbot at telia.com> wrote in message
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> ekim_yar at my-deja.com wrote:
> > I've got two seven year olds that I want to introduce to programming,
and
> I
> > thought logo might be a good way to do it.  Also, I could swear I saw a
> > python version of logo somewhere... I searched sourceforge.net and
> python.org
> > but couldn't find it anywhere. Anyone know more?
>
> there's an (undocumented?) turtle graphics module
> in 1.5.2.  look for turtle.py.
>
> however, they'll probably prefer Alice:
>
>     http://www.alice.org
>
> </F>
>
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