[geeks] Kids and computers...

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:42:27PM -0500, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> "S. Gwizdak" wrote:
> 
> > I mentioned in another message that kids should only be allowed to play
> > games that they've made. This may seem harsh and impractical, but
> > their are computing environments designed for teaching programming.
> 
> 
> An interesting idea, but quite impractical for my three-year old, I'm
> afraid. He's still working on his name, remember?

Have you tried running lego mindstorms by him, can he handle those?  If so, 
there is a good chance of being able to handle some of the squeak stuff
aimed at young kids.

I wonder if anyone ever wrote a logo in squeak.  I know that there is a logo
in lisp, and a lisp in squeak, so it might only require reworking the
graphics primitives.  I'll have to look into that once I get my squeak 
computer back.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd