[aklug] Re: Getting kids into programming...

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org>wrote:
> Guys:
>
> Came across this link on LWN:
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/programming-scratch
>
> It's a GUI-based development environment for a programming language called
> Scratch, specifically designed for kids. You basically program by
> connecting instruction pieces together which, like a puzzle, can only
> connect if they make semantic sense.
>
> MIT host's a Scratch Web Community with 1.1 million projects already
> available for download. The article author created a simple Pong game in
> an
> hour, and some have even done 3D flight combat simulators.
>
> Very cool. So much for Logo... <sniff>
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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Just installed it about week ago for my daughter. I've even had fun playing
around on it. If any of you hot shot geeks come up with a cool program,
please share it with the aklug group so I can show my daughter. Thanks

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