On Mar 21, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Nick Shelley wrote: > My brother has been interested in learning to program, but not super > motivated. I've tried to get him into HtDP 2e, but for him there's too much > reading and not enough doing (and when he comes to the exercises he usually > skips them anyway...). However, he recently started doing some codecademy > exercises and really enjoys it. > > It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to turn the "Quick" guide into > something similar by using something like WeScheme. I also know of several > people who have expressed interest in learning to program but definitely > don't have the motivation to go through HtDP. It seems like the codecademy > approach is ideal for those types of people (the people who would like to dip > their feet before diving in).
Depending on what motivates the person, _Picturing Programs_ might work. It starts with graphics on page 1, and starts building event-driven GUI programs before you ever see an arithmetic operator. See picturingprograms.org . On the other hand, if your brother is the sort to want to absorb a lot of material quickly, Picturing Programs probably isn't ideal: it goes more slowly than HtDP. Stephen Bloch sbl...@adelphi.edu
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