[wellylug] Beginner programming languages and environments for linux

[Jessica Hall]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:51, 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

I'd recommend scheme mostly because of the excellent IDE, drscheme that's 
available cross-platform. Some people don't like the lisp syntax, I've 
started learning it recently and I really quite like it. It has a turtles 
teachpack as well letting you draw with a turtle which is cool for teaching 
kids (or even adults) 

http://www.drscheme.org/

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JH

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