[wellylug] Beginner programming languages and environments for linux

[Leo (Pizbit)]

I'd go with python. Fairly simple to pick up and has some good beginner 
tutorials. It has an interactive shell(Just type 'python') for quick 
playing around, or she can 'python myprogram' to run her program(Or just 
set #!/where/python/is at the begining of the file so she can double 
click it).
Chances are you already have it installed too. :)
You can also get IDLE I think it is, the python IDE.

Lyndsay Mountfort wrote:
> My 8-year-old daughter is asking for an introduction to programming. I'm
> interested in suggestions for what language and environment people would
> suggest, for a simple text-based quiz programme, that is easily
> available for my linux laptop. Is there a good linux basic interpreter
> that someone has experience of?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lyndsay
> 
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