01-11-2009, 02:07 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 18
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Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto
Im excited for the Kodu game creator. Usually when I work my daughter likes to stand/sit right next to me and ask the age old questions - "Why did you put that there?", "What does that do?", "Whats a function for?", "Why are you using the alligator mouth that eats the cookies?" (greater/less than signs), etc.
I really like that their is now an easy to use piece of software that can help children understand those concepts better and have fun while doing so. Heck when I was little all I had was Windows 3.1, DOS and batch scripts. Those were the days  |
I don't know how old she is but check out Small Basic by Microsoft. It's a beautiful IDE and has a great 100 page pdf tutorial. It's a simple teaching language, though it's all text.... OOOO and it has the logo turtle, which it's a great place to start learning coding.
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