Friday, July 31, 2009

What can you recommend as a good book/curriculum for teaching computer programming to young children?

Namely ages 6-10. I'm curious to hear what people can recommend as good (and fun) instructional material.





Thanks.

What can you recommend as a good book/curriculum for teaching computer programming to young children?
I bet your kids would love to make a computer video game.





Check out game maker (I provide the link below).





A free version is available but I would recommend the full version but is only $20 to register.





With game maker you can create games using visual techniques and as you get more experienced you can add your own code snippets.





The game maker site also has a lot of sample games that you can modify so you don't have to start from scratch, there is a book available, step by step getting started tutorial and lesson plans.





If you go this route and your kids make some games my son would be happy to put the games online at his site (also provided below).
Reply:http://www.webmonkey.com/kids/





not programming, per se, more HTML code, but a good starting point for beginners, I think.
Reply:Kids' Programming Language:





http://www.kidsprogramminglanguage.com/





Logo (Turtle) programming:





http://www.mathsnet.net/logo/turtlelogo/...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_progra...


http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/...


http://www.ecu.edu.au/pa/ecawa/sig/logo/...


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