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Submission + - Teaching children to write software?

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Desmond Elliott

on Sunday February 11, 2007 @11:07AM

Desmond Elliott writes: "I recently worked on a piece of software for an undergraduate course which involved me writing a Sudoku game using the GWT. My youngest sister (9 years old) was fascinated to know how I had done it and seems quite keen to want to know more. I know that some people say that children and fickle at that age but I'm keen to let her have the resources that she needs to learn more about programming if she wants to. Does anybody know about any good resources for children to learn more about Java?"

Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 1065

by IronTek on Wednesday June 28, 2006 @07:29AM (#15619758) Attached to: What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do?

Be care ful with that statement...I have fixed a lot of machines that people let their "family nerd" try to fix.

Well then they obviously took it to the family "nerd" because they didn't have a family nerd. One with the expereince and skills (not ego) to know that if he/she can't, it truly is broken (and be able to tell why that is for a reason other than he/she can't fix it).

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