Simple programming language anyone?

[James Tappin]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:40:39 -0400
Shawn McCuan <smccuan at gmail.com> wrote:

SM> we're trying to get him away from windows  :) 
SM> 
SM> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:27 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
SM> > Luigi wrote:
SM> > > On 6/13/07, Ricardo C O Freitas <ricardo.cofreitas at terra.com.br>
SM> > > wrote:
SM> > >>
SM> > >> Hi!
SM> > >>
SM> > >> I'm a teacher and using Ubuntu 606.
SM> > >>
SM> > >> I need a simple programming language to make my own teaching
SM> > >stuff. >
SM> > >> Is there any simple prog (with graphical results) to use on
SM> > >Ubuntu? >
SM> > >> I have a basic programming experience.
SM> > >>
SM> > >> TIA
SM> > > 
SM> > > 
SM> > > 
SM> > > This is a very subjective question, and you will get a wide
SM> > > range of answers.
SM> > > 
SM> > > Be specific.
SM> > 
SM> > Since he gave no information (programming language background,
SM> > what he  intends to make, whether the students are supposed to
SM> > program in it,  etc.) I could suggest he look at Scratch...
SM> > 
SM> > http://scratch.mit.edu/
SM> > 
SM> > Haven't really tried it and it looks like he'd have to use VMWare
SM> > or  Virtualbox to run it in Windows, it does look like an
SM> > intriguing  language to look at for simple projects.
SM> > 
SM> 
SM> 

For graphical stuff you might consider GDL
[gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net] (which is a free clone of the
popular scientific language IDL). Currently you probably need to build
from source [though it looks as if it's about to arrive in Gutsy as
there is a gdl directory in the repository but with nothing yet in it].
It's not complete yet -- no widgets for example -- but most important
stuff is there.

James

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