Course available for teaching programming to kids (Score 1)

Hi To reply to the question of whihc language to use: I learnt by experience that Smalltalk is really good and natural. The kids really learn easily. And this is fun. By the way, if you are interested I'm designing a lecture (this will be a book at the end) where I teach kids (teenagers) the concepts of programming why do we need loops, what is a variable, why do we need abstraction.....in a fun way For that I use an object-oriented logo approach ;) I implemented a bad turtle in Squeak http://www.squeak.org/ (the Smalltalk developed by Disney) The problem is that my lecture is in french BUT the code are in english so you might be interested. For more information look at http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/Teaching .html#turtle you will the code and the pdf of an early version Then you have to take squeak. The first chapter on installation is not really good. If you want to know what the kids are doing at Ecole Francaise de berne look at: http://kilana.unibe.ch:8080/TurtleGallery We started recently this wiki so it does not show all the drawing ans scripts they made but this is fun Stef I hope that we will have a french and english version in the future