2015-07-07 6:08 GMT+02:00 Glenn English <g...@slsware.net>: > > On Jul 6, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Marc D Ronell <mron...@alumni.upenn.edu> wrote: > >> Has anyone tried running a GNU/Linux intro class for teens? Can >> anyone share their experiences, thoughts or suggestions? Feedback >> based on actual experience would be most helpful, I think, but I would >> appreciate any insights. > > Have a look at a problem set from Harvard's CS50 course: > > https://cdn.cs50.net/2015/x/psets/0/pset0/pset0.html > > This is Harvard's take on an intro to CS, and much of it would be over the > heads of a group of teenagers. Most of it, so far, has been fairly hard core > C, but they start out using Scratch: > > https://scratch.mit.edu/ > > Scratch looks to be more aimed at kids, but you might be able to get some > ideas from the CS50 site.
Scratch is very good to teach the basis to pre-teens (and possibly as a starter for older kids). To go beyond that, have a look at Alice: http://www.alice.org. Plain C requires a lot of effort before producing any visible result. Instead, you may want to have a look at Qt and its IDE: QtCreator. Its C++. It makes it easy to produce a windowed application with moderate user interaction. I had a look at Smalltalk once. It looked good until I got into introspection of introspection of introspection... That got me lost :-) Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caj7r-8tgh8wgr2zaj0zzmhvw60wk7lncneisy7f6r_dx-ru...@mail.gmail.com
