Making Programming Easier For Kids With PyJunior
Apr 14, 2010, 22:03 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jono Bacon)
"This week I am in Mexico on vacation with my wife and it has
been wonderful getting out and about, catching some rays and and
chillin’ by the pool. Mexico is a wonderful place and the
people here are just incredible. It has been a wonderful week.
"Yesterday I had a break from the sun and a few hours spare and
wrote a little program I have been wanting to write for a while.
First though, a little back story.
"A little while back, Aq and I did a Shot Of Jaq shot about how
back in the good ol’ days computers used to make programming
more accessible to kids. The basic gist of the shot was that when
you bought a Commodore 64 or Spectrum, access to the BASIC language
was up-front, and your computer came with a manual that taught you
how to write programs in BASIC. This was great for kids and others
who wanted to explore their computers. It introduced them to
programming, and taught them that you could make the computer do
all manner of different things if you learned this simple language,
while all the time teaching them about logic and semantics. This
was an incredible thrill for me when I was such an ankle-biter: I
felt this tremendous liberation that I could write any kind of
program I wanted. In a nutshell, it sowed the seeds of
opportunistic development in my mind."
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