[Techtalk] programming for beginners

[Gayathri Swaminathan]

The XO logo looks nice. Would be a neat intro-to-programming for children!

Thanks Maria!



On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:

> Gayathri Swaminathan wrote:
> > Ah, I see now what you are asking.
> >
> > Am not familiar with Turbo Basic - so your explanation helped clarify
> the
> > feature set.
> >
> > Python shines as a good choice to understand some basics if you are new
> to
> > programming. Gold first programming language.
> >
> > The command line IDE that comes along with Python is very educative.
> Meaning
> > it helps you try things/ learn things without having to know much about
> > programming.
> >
> > Had the fortunate experience of attending class taught by Mark Lutz -
> author
> > of "programming python".
> >
> > For GUI-ish choices, there are several projects such as
> > wxWidgets/wxDesigner...web frameworks such as Django, dabo, turbogears
> that
> > are interesting ways to learn python programming.
> >
> > But this: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ was fun as well.
> >
> > The Eclipse project recently introduced a "Visual editor" not long ago,
> > which is supposed to help one do easy JAVA gui programming
> >
> > Drag drop things and code away in Java it seems ( not done it
> personally)
> >
> > Gayathri
> >
>
> My daughter has an xo laptop (from the one laptop per child
> organization), and it runs some variant of ubuntu, I think, but at any
> rate it only has open source on it. It has a program called turtle
> graphics, which is pretty cute and based on logo. You can make if then
> statements, for loops, etc. that cause different graphics to
> appear/disappear, change, whatever. I looked at their site, and they
> have a whole list of logo sorts of programs.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LOGO
>
> cheers,
> maria
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