Programming language for children

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 13:36, Tony Baldwin<photodharma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
>> I want to try to learn my daughters some programming language. (they
>> are 13,14 years)
>> In earlier times I would have thought about logo. What programming
>> language, available in ubuntu,
>> would you propose for this in our time?
>>
>> Kjetil
>>
>
> I think you're looking for something like turtle or kturtle, and
> education Logo language IDE program, but, were I you, I would skip that.
> If you want to learn 'em right, don't mess with an IDE.
> Use a text editor and a bash shell and start them off with bash
> scripting and something relatively simple like tcl/tk, or perl or
> python. (IMHO, tcl/tk is about the easiest language to start learning
> programming, but ESR recommends python...could be that tcl is so easy,
> one develops bad habits?).
>

Thanks for many ideas so far ... but who/what is ESR???

Kjetil

> Additionally, you might even start them off writing html pages (in an
> editor, not in some bloated website editing monstrosity).  I know that's
> not programming, but they will begin to see the direct relationship
> between writing "code" and the visual results.  Even ESR says this is a
> good idea.
>
> Mind you, I only started learning programming about a year and a half
> ago, with bash scripts and tcl/tk, but I've already released some
> moderately useful stuff to the community in that time...In tcl/tk.
> I'm now learning some perl and python, but it's going slowly in
> comparison to tcl/tk.
>
> /tony
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