teaching programming to children

[John Roth]

"Jim Hefferon" <jhefferon at smcvt.edu> wrote in message
news:545cb8c2.0310160530.3ee31948 at posting.google.com...
> andy at post.tau.ac.il wrote
> > I would be gratefull if people who had a similar experience would told
me about
> > it.
> I brought home Alice http://www.alice.org for my kids the other day and
> they now beg me to give them extra computer time so they can play with
> it more.  It is worth a look, at least.

I took a quick look at the Alice site, and it looks like an absolutely
wonderful
learning tool for children that have no obvious interest in ever becoming
professional programmers (or even power users.)

John Roth
>
> Jim