Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Lamb Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:09:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="w5ewJxsRgiUymlDHZo0DiA"; logging-data="5228"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19eSSL4UryIVY/Wkt6TO5Cc" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:wNpTbknNbG3R2P5J4wYdGoAwYa4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13500 On 12/04/2012 4:12 AM, Mark wrote: > Does anyone know any good resources to teach Java programming to kids. I passed this question along to our intro programming profs and they uniformly said don't use Java. Recommendations included (a) Logo (presumably with turtle graphics) (b) Python. One example: http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-plan/27 (c) The Alice environment (Alice.org)