New subject: Teaching children programming on mac

1 Dec 2011

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:

  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:

  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(a)docpc.com.au wrote:

  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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