Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

At 09:16 AM 9/29/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: >I second the suggestion of Python Programming for the absolute beginner, >definitely worth a look. Me, too, but make sure it's the 2nd edition. Dick __

Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

> What I am looking for is a book thats: > > 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can learn from it without my > continous assistence. (Of course, I can answer questions, but the idea > is that I don't want to walk him through all of it.) > > 2) doesn't look like it is teaching programming -- it sh

Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

Abel Daniel wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for a book to give to my younger brother as a birthday > present. He is 13 years old, had some experience with logo (but not > much, so he knows about simple instructions and loops, but not about, > say, algorithms), and is fairly comfortable around compute

Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

Look here: www.ceebot.com Not a book, but it might be what you are looking for. --- Abel Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm looking for a book to give to my younger brother > as a birthday > present. He is 13 years old, had some experience > with logo (but not > much, so he kno

Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

If he is into games, you could try to look at Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, from Michael Dawson. It teaches Python through programming a set of simple games. -- Tom, http://www.vscripts.net on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:54:32 +0200, you wrote: > 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can

[Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

Hi! I'm looking for a book to give to my younger brother as a birthday present. He is 13 years old, had some experience with logo (but not much, so he knows about simple instructions and loops, but not about, say, algorithms), and is fairly comfortable around computers. He sometimes mentions that