earlier this year, as a volunteer, i spent an hour on six consecutive Friday afternoons introducing middle school students (aged 12 - 14) to Julia ...
we got familiar with the REPL, the IJulia notebook, JuliaBox, Jupyter (on tmpnb.org) ... we extended a Rock Paper Scissors program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors#mediaviewer/File:Rock_Paper_Scissors_Lizard_Spock_en.svg and surveyed some of the sample programs in Julia at: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Julia generally, kids like the language, and the really like programming in groups. enjoy !!! cdm On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 8:41:35 AM UTC-7, yu...@altern.org wrote: > > Personally I always recommend Processing as a starting environment, it > allows to easily do cool stuff. > The bottleneck when starting is often motivation, so having positive > feedback is important. > > http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/192912 >
