[Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

[Marc Poulin]

Look here:
www.ceebot.com

Not a book, but it might be what you are looking for.


--- Abel Daniel <abli at freemail.hu> wrote:

> 
> 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
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