From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T04:04:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing why's (poignant) guide to ruby

Joao Pedrosa wrote:
> Have you seen this interview by Alan Kay?
> http://acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273
> 
> He says that Smalltalk has become more of a pro-tool and less of a
> teaching environment since its beginnings.

Yes, but at the same time, he devotes a lot of his time to support the 
Etoys environment within Squeak which is meant for teaching young kids 
how to author various Media (not just programming) on the computer. Take 
it from me, I have done this at my son's school ( 6th and 7th grade) and 
it was very successful. More about it here:  http://www.squeakland.org

In my opinion Logo or Etoys is the best way to introduce programming to 
kids. I tried Ruby a couple of times, but it did not work out quite like 
the others. Of course, YMMV !

> Cheers,
> Joao

HTH,
-- shanko