On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > I want to gauge my 6 year old daughter's interest in programming. She seems > fascinated with what I do... If she is interested, I would like to > 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? > > In an attempt to induce my then 10-year old niece to learn programming, I did some research, and got a copy of Squeak - http://www.squeak.org/Unfortunately the DVD lay unused for a long time, and she eventually lost it without having tried it even once. So I can't speak for its effectiveness. Anyway, the project appeared highly promising. You should definitely check it out and compare against other options. -Karra _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
