Teaching python (programming) to children

[Brian Elmegaard]

Paul Rubin <phr-n2001d at nightsong.com> writes:

> Guido Stepken <stepken at little-idiot.de> writes:
> > > the Logo language.  See the book Mindstorms, by Seymour Papert.  He
> > 
> > I have had great success in making children (12-15) having fun programming 
> > python .... before the were only interested in playing gameboy...with 

> Yes, Python is probably a good choice at ages 12-15.  By "children" I
> thought of the kids aged maybe 6-8.  Python wouldn't make any sense
> at that age, but Logo apparently worked ok.

And I thought about the ages inbetween, I guess. At 8 they don't have
the reading and writing skills to program, at 10 I believe they
do. I will look at pygame.

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