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Comment Python with IDE (Score 1) 799

by Dave Briccetti on Sunday December 27, 2009 @10:06PM (#30567582) Attached to: How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program?

Recent versions of NetBeans do very well with Python. Eclipse with Pycon isn’t bad. Not sure why you think Python is too big and complicated. Seems ideal to me.

Comment Charles Petzold’s “Code” (Score 1) 799

by Dave Briccetti on Sunday December 27, 2009 @09:39PM (#30567432) Attached to: How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program?

To start at the beginning (flashlights and morse code, switches, relays, telegraphs, and, or circuits, ... modern computers, check out “Code,” by Charles Petzold.

Comment Hello World Python book coauthor did guest video (Score 1) 799

by Dave Briccetti on Sunday December 27, 2009 @09:34PM (#30567386) Attached to: How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program?

Carter Sande, young coauthor of Hello World, did a guest video lesson on the Young Programmers Podcast: http://young-programmers.blogspot.com/2009/11/carter-sande-presents-pythoncard.html

Comment Scratch, Alice, Python, Young Programmers Podcast (Score 1) 799

by Dave Briccetti on Sunday December 27, 2009 @09:24PM (#30567318) Attached to: How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program?

I recommend Scratch (MIT), Alice (Carnegie Mellon) and Python, for teaching kids. I have some video lessons here: http://young-programmers.blogspot.com/ on those three, plus Jython and Pygame, Scala and Lift.

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