On Aug 24, 2015, at 3:40 PM, François Beausoleil <francois.beausol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 24 août 2015 12:28:07 UTC-4, John Carmack a écrit : >> ... > > Hello John, > > Thanks for sharing. Played a few levels and had fun :) > > I have a 10 year old daughter. Did your son show interest in programming or > did you initiate him yourself? I remember I started when I was 10 years old > as well. I'd like to introduce my daughter to programming too, and was > wondering when the right time would be. I tried Logo last year, but after 5 > minutes, she didn't see any interest in it. > > Have a great day! > François Beausoleil > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Francois, since you are on the Racket mailing list, may I recommend the Bootstrap material? It is a restricted version of the "Universe" approach as John calls it, tailored to 10-12 year olds who are just finding out about expressions and functions (in the US. Does not apply to my experience with European schools.) You can play with this in DrRacket off-line or if you prefer you can use WeScheme as an on-line tool with this approach. The point is to reinforce math (a traditional school topic) with programming and to use this kind of programming as a "gateway" for real programming (in a mostly functional style. None of us are purists; we are American pragmatists.) See bootstrap-world.org -- Matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
