Thank-you everyone for your comments. I remember learning to program on my zx-spectrum at the time and just wanted to get the children started with something simple. I've had them using Alice for a little while, but might look at some of those suggestions for something more traditional. Thanks for all the input. Best Regards Jason On 29/11/2011, at 12:11 PM, Gordon Heydon wrote:

Hi,

Also I forgot to add, Scratch will run on anything, and my 10 Y/o had lots of fun with scratch. We have also started playing around with iOS development between us, which he has been designing the layouts and I have been adding the code behind the buttons.

Gordon.

On 29/11/2011, at 12:09 PM, Jason Lade wrote:

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Thanks Gordon,

That might be a little similar to Alice at http://www.alice.org. Will have a look at it.

Thanks

Regards

Jason On 29/11/2011, at 12:07 PM, Gordon Heydon wrote:

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Hi,

The best one that I found found for kids is scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ which is a very visual drag and drop language, and helps kids work out how languages work and I think it is good starter before moving onto a more lower level language which is more text/coding based.

Gordon.

On 29/11/2011, at 12:02 PM, jason@docpc.com.au wrote:

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I would like to start teaching my children programming. They have access to an iMac, I am thinking that now they old enough to learn a language. I've looked at the standard Mac programming. But it seems to complex to start them off on. Any suggestions?

By the way the children's ages are 9 (boy) and 13 (girl). They are home schooled it would be great to be able to add another subject under their belt.

If necessary I could create a virtual machine with linux running in it.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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