Have you looked at the raspberry pi? it's designed for the classroom to teach kids about programming and computers.
The ipython shell is nicer than the plain python shell and I'm sure there are other GUI apps that I'm not aware of that do what you want, so stay tuned ;) -- http://www.linuxsupportsydney.com.au On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Ben Donohue <donoh...@icafe.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get my kids into programming... (I'm not a programmer by the > way)... > > anyway Linux Mint has Python installed. > > If I type python at the shell prompt I get a python >>> > > However I'd like something that they can type the program in and another > window opens and displays their program running... or something like that. > > (Yes I'm a complete noob at this.) > > Is there such a beast or what is something that I can get the kids started > on... python-wise...? > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.html<http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
