teaching programming to children

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In article <3F8EC655.CAC61FF4 at juno.com>, Jeff Sandys wrote:

> I plan to use _How to Think Like a Computer Scientist_ as the lesson
> outline and let the students work on small projects.
> http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/

I'm not a kid, but I found this book to be very helpful.  It would
have been a bit much for me as a 12 year-old, but your friend is
probably smarter than me, so give it a whirl.