On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:40:33 +0000, John Briggs wrote:

> Check out http://www.squeak.org Squeak is a dialect of Smalltalk and
> Smalltalk was originally designed to teach children to program. Lots of
> stuff for everyone there.
>
> John

Thank you, this looks promising

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_menu.htm

QT Designer ought to be a challenge.
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:16:13 +0000, Mykil X wrote:
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
> to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
> browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
> for her to do.

I have never really looked at it, but KTurtle seems to be a good point to
start. It is modern implementation of the Logo language. It helps teaching
programming in a fun way.

http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/

-- Daniel

Mykil X <freep@mail15.com> writes:

> I haven't googled much myself yet, but was curious about maths and reading
> "edutainment" type programs. I seem to remember Debian having some sort of
> all in one kids program, but I forget the name.

Anything here that looks promising?

http://www.linuxforkids.org/


atb


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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:16:13 +0000, Mykil X wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
> to do on her Slack box.

http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/

> As of now all she does is play a few games and browses Disney.com and a
> few other kids sites. Looking for something fun for her to do.

Maybe have a look at something VBish like Gumbas :
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/

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William Park wrote:
>
> Teach her how to type.
>
There is a touch typing application as part of the 'Edutainment' section
of KDE, take a lok and see if it suits her.
--
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Mykil X <freep@mail15.com> writes:
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
> to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
> browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
> for her to do.

there used to be a programming language called logo that was specifically
designed to teach children about programming. one of its features was that
you could instruct a turtle to walk across the screen to create
drawings. IIRC there is an implementation of logo for KDE.

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> Mykil X <freep@mail15.com> writes:
>> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
>> to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
>> browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
>> for her to do.
>
> there used to be a programming language called logo that was specifically
> designed to teach children about programming. one of its features was that
> you could instruct a turtle to walk across the screen to create
> drawings. IIRC there is an implementation of logo for KDE.
>
Hey, I think I once did that at school, must have been no older than 10
though. I just googled for some screenshots, but most look way nicer
than what I remember, I guess technology has advanced a bit since then.

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Mykil X wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Was curious if you had any good links or ideas for my 8 year old daughter
> to do on her Slack box. As of now all she does is play a few games and
> browses Disney.com and a few other kids sites. Looking for something fun
> for her to do.

ucblogo is a good place to start. logo is a programming language
they use in many grade schools to start kids learning about
programming. It is base on the scheme/lisp programming language but is
very easy for kids to learn a few quick programs and learn ow
programming works. If you can get her interest this may be the place to
start. There are some turtle programs and there are Windows versions also.

mAineAc

Al. C <no.spam.acanton@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:
>
> If she is going to learn programming, I suggest she also learn Hindi, or
> perhaps Chinese so that she will be able to get a job in Asia later in
> life.... because there won't be any work here in the USA for her, that's for
> damn sure!

Either that or the salaries for programmers are going to drop significantly
over here. Which they probably should considering that most software
development now days is just building GUIs and pulling data into and
out of databases.

Still, some experience in programming might be good to see if she is
interested in computer science or engineering. They will still need
people to continue to develop the science behind software.

- Kurt