Re: [Boston.pm] teaching kids Perl

On 2006-12-01 11.27.54 -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Kate Wood wrote:
> > So... say you were going to teach a child (or several children) of
> > about ten, reasonable technical aptitude, to program using Perl. How
> > would you go about it? I'm doing some lessons for my daughter and her
> > friends for the spring,and need some further input. They're not quite
> > of an age where handing them the camel book and saying "go for it" is
> > realistic, but they're pretty self-motivated.
> 
> I seem to remember that there was some good "Python for kids"  tutorials 
> out there, as well as Scheme/Logo.

I taught 6th, 7th, and 8th graders with http://htdp.org/ . If you want to 
hear tips about this from people who have done it far too much, I recommend 
these mailing lists:

 https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/teachgroup
 http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme

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