I've reposted on another list and got this reply. At first I was sceptic a bit, but for the sake of completeness, here goes. Processing language seems to be interesting in its own right. Examples are Java-flavoured, images are ok.
Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:55:11 +0200 From: Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> To: <i...@postbiota.org> Subject: Re: [info] (comp.lang.python) Re: My son wants me to teach him Python On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 04:48:52PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > No. Definitely not. Programming does NOT begin with a GUI. It begins with > something *simple*, so you're not stuck fiddling around with the > unnecessary. On today's computers, that usually means console I/O > (actually console output, with console input coming along much later). Of course kids are more interesting in things painted on screen, especially if they are colorful, move and make sounds at that. The next step would be a simple, interactive game. Which is why I would synthesize something neat yet simple from http://processing.org/tutorials/ Python is overkill for a kid. Ugh. Some people have just no common sense at all. _______________________________________________ info mailing list i...@postbiota.org http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/info -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
