Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming
On Jul 6, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Marc D Ronell <mronell@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.
I'm getting ready to set up a Raspberry Pi box for my nephew's son (a kid), and I plan to start him off with Scratch on Debian, and leave a Python IDE lying around on the machine, in case he gets adventuresome...
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Glenn English
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