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Tirian · 04-26-2004, 10:40 PM

My ten year old (well 11 now) has fun doing the following programming related activities....

- Game maker (see game maker thread in this forum)
- PC Logo, (which is actually a pretty rich language in the old MS version we have for Win 3.1. I'm sure it's out of production, but maybe you can find it in abandonware somewhere. You can start with simple commands to manipulate the screen graphics and work into more from there)
- HTML it's fun to make web pages
- some Quick basic (I have an MS QB compiler so I can make DOS EXE files. - which I still use regularly to script stuff for my work MS based networks)

IMHO it's more about learning the process of step by step logical progression at first than any specific language. Folks who understand logic and structure can learn any language syntax fairly quickly. On the other hand, I've met folks who could memorize all kinds of command syntax, but could not understand a nested loop or select structure to save their life.

Good luck - and remember to get him outdoors from time to time :-) (try geocaching - it's helping me)

04-26-2004, 10:40 PM	#20 (permalink)
Tirian Addict Location: Canada	My ten year old (well 11 now) has fun doing the following programming related activities.... - Game maker (see game maker thread in this forum) - PC Logo, (which is actually a pretty rich language in the old MS version we have for Win 3.1. I'm sure it's out of production, but maybe you can find it in abandonware somewhere. You can start with simple commands to manipulate the screen graphics and work into more from there) - HTML it's fun to make web pages - some Quick basic (I have an MS QB compiler so I can make DOS EXE files. - which I still use regularly to script stuff for my work MS based networks) IMHO it's more about learning the process of step by step logical progression at first than any specific language. Folks who understand logic and structure can learn any language syntax fairly quickly. On the other hand, I've met folks who could memorize all kinds of command syntax, but could not understand a nested loop or select structure to save their life. Good luck - and remember to get him outdoors from time to time :-) (try geocaching - it's helping me) Last edited by Tirian; 04-26-2004 at 10:45 PM..