wissel.net

« A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection | Main| A little IBM advertisement »

Did you Scratch today?

Teaching kids (especially mine) programming is on my mind for quite a while. The discussion on Slashdot about my query was very inspiring. However it didn't seem to show the right tool. Now, again inspired by a slashdot article, I found Scratch. Looks very much like fun to me:



Now they only need to add interfaces to Lego Mindstorms and the Picocricket and I'm a happy camper.

Posted by Stephan H Wissel On 21/05/2007, Category Software | Permalink |      

Comments

1 - I couldn't try it because I have only a PPC Mac and no Windows machine, but I found ToonTalk { Link } very interesting. It's used also by 4 yo kids. I think it should be redeemed (maybe by IBM? and released as free software.
Alredady open source and ready for Mac is Squeak { Link } (a Smalltalk interpreter) and its eToys environment.
What do you think about them?
(Sorry for my English.)

Posted by Andrea Garbagnoli At 02:48:00 On 04/07/2008 | - Website - |

2 - Looks as interesting as MindRover. As soon as they publish their planned Linux release, will you send me a note? I'll make sure a copy goes to the computer center at the Nyumbani orphanage.

Posted by Jack Dausman At 03:32:16 On 05/22/2007 | - Website - |

3 - Have you seen this http://www.amazon.com/Squeak-Programming-Robots-Technology-Action/dp/1590594916
I picked up a copy (out of curiosity) from Kinokuniya at Takashimaya for a bragain price of ~$15.

Posted by Slawek At 18:28:44 On 05/21/2007 | - Website - |

Post A Comment

Please note: Comments without a valid and working eMail address will be removed. This is my site, so I decide what stays here and what goes.

Name

Email

Website

Remember Me

Comments UBB Code Allowed

Comment Preview

Disclaimer

This site is in no way affiliated, endorsed, sanctioned, supported, nor enlightened by Lotus Software nor IBM Corporation. I may be an employee, but the opinions, theories, facts, etc. presented here are my own and are in now way given in any official capacity. In short, these are my words and this is my site, not IBM's - and don't even begin to think otherwise. (Disclaimer shamelessly plugged from Rocky Oliver)

© 2003 - 2010 Stephan H. Wissel - all rights reserved as listed here:
Unless otherwise labeled by its originating author, the content found on this site is made available under the terms of an Attribution/NonCommercial/ShareAlike Creative Commons License, with the exception that no rights are granted -- since they are not mine to grant -- in any logo, graphic design, trademarks or trade names of any type.