And a little Flash to boot 🙂
Flash sounds like a perfect tool to teach programming. Others I’ve been reading about:
Scratch (scratch is built on Squeak Smalltalk – there are other educational environments/tools built with it as well)
My roots: LOGO and Commodore BASIC.
Interesting related article at O’Reilly: Why Johnny Can’t Program.
There’s also a language called Myro, based on Python, which can be used to control Scribbler robots. Students at Bryn Mawr used this to do a summer program with students 7-13 years old. Check out the Institute for Personal Robots in Education for more info, and links to the wiki-based textbook.
Sweet 🙂 I will take a look for Emma. Robots and Python. Rocking 🙂
Checkout http://www.greenfoot.org/about/screenshots.html
I also remember a great python library that was used to teach teens programming in england, but my memory and google are failing me