Quoting Yishay Mor, from the post of Wed, 09 Feb: > Here's a few more: > > http://www.squeak.org/ > http://toontalk.com/ (which we use in WebLabs - http://www.weblabs.eu.com) > http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/karel.html and > http://xkarel.sourceforge.net/eng/ > And of course, the queen mother of educational languages, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_programming_language
all these fail the simple test of real-world usefulness. with Python you write psuedocode and it just RUNS. it's very easy to teach, very powerful to use, and it IS used in the real world, so you can start hacking on real code right away. -- Lord of the Rings Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
