From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-12T00:18:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting my sister to learn programming

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By the way, this is looking REALLY great:

http://www.logowiki.net/

It's... It's like TryRuby with graphics!

No installation is a huge advantage if I want to teach her remotely.

I think I'll postpone my decision and teach the first few lessons here, and
then ask her what kind of thing she would like to create and choose by her
answer.

Still, until I start I am very open to suggestions.

Aur Saraf

On 2/11/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, but I want to teach her an environment where if she comes to me and
> wants to program, say, a GUI, or a game, or a website, I can show her how.
>
> With Squeak, I haven't figured out the only simple task I've ever tried
> to.
>
> That isn't a good sign...
>
> Aur Saraf
>
> On 2/11/07, Mushfeq Khan <mushfeq.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >   * Squeak seems like a really great thing to teach, and Smalltalk a
> > great
> > > language (simple syntax and ideas), but I can't seem to do useful
> > things
> > > in
> > > Squeak myself (perhaps I didn't find the good resources? If so, could
> > > someone point me to them?)
> > >
> >
> > There's a book out that uses Squeak as an introduction to programming:
> >
> > http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=444
> >
> > I've leafed through it a little and it looked very cool. Professor
> > Ducasse
> > also maintains a page with free online editions of a lot of classic
> > Smalltalk books at:
> >
> > http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html<http://www.iam.unibe.ch/%7Educasse/FreeBooks.html>
> >
> > Mushfeq.
> >
>
>

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