[wellylug] Beginner programming languages and environments for linux

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

Jessica Hall writes:
>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/

Also see http://www.htdp.org, How To Design Programs, which is a free
textbook (admittedly probably not oriented to 8 year olds; I believe
it's used in AP programming classes in the US, late college in NZ
terms) that uses the DrScheme environment.
    -- michael.