On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun...@gmail.com> wrote: > introduce her to the joy of programming. Any recommendations for a first > programming language? My first choice would be BASIC with which I learnt > programming some 24 years back. Any better choices? A language which will > be a foundation for her to explore and make better choices later and > a language which is not imposing and is fun?
Great! I also started with BASIC (GWBASIC). In my opinion, "python" is a decent, good first choice to introduce to children (very basic python is enough considering her age). YYMMV. -- mks -- _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
