May I suggest gvim (vim) as an editor. I have been using it for about 3 years with mainly yr10 - 12 students. Hoiwever, I have also shown it to 2 groups of very bright ten year olds who picked it up really easily. I like it because it is a dedicated editor for programmers, allows you to select the syntax highlighting for the language you are using and you can compile nad run your code from within gvim if you wish. Oh ... and it is open source too, runs on both windows and linux (probly mac too). regards ===== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- regards Darren Payne Hurlstone Agricultural High School Ph: 9829 9222 Fax: 98292026 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail