teaching programming to children

[Lee Harr]

On 2003-10-16, andy at post.tau.ac.il <andy at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> A young friend of me (12 years old) has asked me to teach him programming (after
> I shortly described my programming job as telling the computer what to do and
> not the other way arround). I choose python because I personally like it but I
> was wondering to what extent is it appropriate for this task.
>

> c) Should we run to "cool" things (GUI, networking, other proposals?) or should
> we first make a good hold of "algorithms" (which in my opinion is at the heart
> of programming).
>


I think you can do both. I have been writing a book and related modules:

http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/
http://staff.easthighschool.net/lee/computers/book/

Feedback welcome, of course  :o)