Hi. Quoting john saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 12/1/06, Kate Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So... say you were going to teach a child (or several children) of >> about ten, reasonable technical aptitude, to program using Perl. How >> would you go about it? > > well, the main thing would be to connect the programming to another > interest. let's say they like harry potter books. you could work on a > cgi script to return an arbitrary harry potter quote. > > all the other stuff [checking input values, randomly accessing arrays] > would come out of that.
I think this is an excellent approach. I would recommend keeping a simple theme and slowly building up examples from that. Perhaps making a simple game would keep their interest through the course? While designed for a more technical audience, there are some kid-friendly examples in the slides I organized for a class several years ago: http://www.mit.edu/~sipb-iap/2004/perl/slides.html I think it would be nice to have a good online resource for children interested in learning programming, but what is out there seems limited. Does anyone here have suggestions on where to look for something like that? + Richard _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
