http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2009/02/15/teaching-kids-to-program/ FMTYEWTK about stuff and things Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:53:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2009/02/15/teaching-kids-to-program/comment-page-1/#comment-41 gnat Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:54:28 +0000 http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/?p=150#comment-41 Alice ... yeah, it promises a lot but it was quite buggy and not as easy to use as Scratch. I've bounced off Alice and stuck to Scratch. I hope Alice gets better, though, because an arms race between them would be awesome! Alice … yeah, it promises a lot but it was quite buggy and not as easy to use as Scratch. I’ve bounced off Alice and stuck to Scratch. I hope Alice gets better, though, because an arms race between them would be awesome!

]]> http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2009/02/15/teaching-kids-to-program/comment-page-1/#comment-40 michaeln Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:43:10 +0000 http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/?p=150#comment-40 This reminded me of Alice from CMU, which I haven't seen in action, but have read about. See www.alice.org, and in particular the "Story-telling Alice" version, which targets "middle schoolers". Even this may be too much for primary school kids aged 8-10... This reminded me of Alice from CMU, which I haven’t seen in action, but have read about. See http://www.alice.org, and in particular the “Story-telling Alice” version, which targets “middle schoolers”. Even this may be too much for primary school kids aged 8-10…

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