Well i don't know of any tutorials but i thought of a cool little "assignment" that might interest someone of that age assuming english is her first language. Its a neat little trick with english and the way that we proccess letter combinations (or should i say permuations). But a program that turned proper english into this, might be neat.
""" Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. """ the algo whold be something like openfile for word in file tmp=word[0] tmp+=permut(tmp[1:-2]) tmp+=word[-1] print word She could enjoy sending letters like this, neat secrete codes for a nine year old ;) Linky http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/ G'Luck - Haz P.S. I just had my friend read it and his native tongue is chinese, so might work for other languages too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list