My son wants me to teach him Python

[Tomasz Rola]

I've reposted on another list and got this reply. At first I was sceptic 
a bit, but for the sake of completeness, here goes. Processing language 
seems to be interesting in its own right. Examples are Java-flavoured, 
images are ok.

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:55:11 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
To:  <info at postbiota.org>
Subject: Re: [info] (comp.lang.python) Re: My son wants me to teach him Python

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 04:48:52PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:

> No. Definitely not. Programming does NOT begin with a GUI. It begins with 
> something *simple*, so you're not stuck fiddling around with the 
> unnecessary. On today's computers, that usually means console I/O 
> (actually console output, with console input coming along much later).

Of course kids are more interesting in things painted on
screen, especially if they are colorful, move and make
sounds at that. The next step would be a simple, 
interactive game.

Which is why I would synthesize something neat yet
simple from http://processing.org/tutorials/

Python is overkill for a kid. Ugh. Some people have just
no common sense at all.
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