Teaching python (programming) to children

[Guido Stepken]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Brian Elmegaard <brian at rk-speed-rugby.dk> writes:
>> So, any comments are appreciated, especially on: Are there good reasons
>> for advocating python being a language one could teach children
>> programming with and are there perspectives in translating python to many
>> different languages in order to facilitate this, or will children not be
>> ready for learning programming before they have learnt English after all?
> 
> The best-known attempts to teach children programming have been with
> the Logo language.  See the book Mindstorms, by Seymour Papert.  He
> has another book out called "The Children's Machine: Rethinking School
> in the Age of the Computer", but I haven't seen it yet.
> 

I have had great success in making children (12-15) having fun programming 
python .... before the were only interested in playing gameboy...with 
pygame, SLT they are now trying to programm a simple game for windows ....
For Mindstroms there is a python module in work.....

have fun, Guido Stepken