Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > I want to gauge my 6 year old daughter's interest in programming. She > seems fascinated with what I do... If she is interested, I would like to > introduce her to the joy of programming. Any recommendations for a first > programming lang

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Manokaran K wrote: > Khan Academy has started a CS stream. I have not looked into it entirely so > am not sure how appropriate it will be for a 6 year old. But I think it > should be good because John Resig (of jQuery) is implementing Bret Victor's > ideas of an in

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Manokaran K
Khan Academy has started a CS stream. I have not looked into it entirely so am not sure how appropriate it will be for a 6 year old. But I think it should be good because John Resig (of jQuery) is implementing Bret Victor's ideas of an interactive programming environment to make programming fun. G

Re: [Ilugc] My first contribution to an open source project (to minix)

2012-10-23 Thread prasannatsmkumar
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:38 AM, prasannatsmkumar < prasannatsmku...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:16 PM, prasannatsmkumar >> wrote: >> > >> > I have made a small contribution to Minix (an open source operating >> system >

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > Hi, > > I want to gauge my 6 year old daughter's interest in programming. She seems > fascinated with what I do... If she is interested, I would like to > introduce her to the joy of programming. Any recommendations for a firs

Re: [Ilugc] Small tasks for FOSS contribution

2012-10-23 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
> I see many of my friends have internet connection in office and home, > spending time on social networks. > > Often, they realise that they waste time and worry for not doing > anything useful. > > Thinking of collecting some list of small tasks to contribute to Free > Software in any way. Curre

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] [help] Music Player - Tracking the Odd Man out!!

2012-10-23 Thread Mohan R
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 20:04 +0530, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: > Hi all, > > This Question may seem to be funny or non conventional for many but, I am > looking for a solution for this for a long time... I assume library, means your music player indexed all your songs. > I have a good music library

Re: [Ilugc] Small tasks for FOSS contribution

2012-10-23 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/10/23 Shrinivasan T > some tasks are > > 1. write article on wikipedia > Please guide me on what to write.. -- Regards, ARUN P A Tailor’s mistake is a Fashion But, An Engineer’s mistake is a Disaster. "Preserve the earth; Else we will perish"

Re: [Ilugc] Small tasks for FOSS contribution

2012-10-23 Thread prasannatsmkumar
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > I see many of my friends have internet connection in office and home, > spending time on social networks. > > Often, they realise that they waste time and worry for not doing > anything useful. > > Thinking of collecting some list of small ta

[Ilugc] Small tasks for FOSS contribution

2012-10-23 Thread Shrinivasan T
I see many of my friends have internet connection in office and home, spending time on social networks. Often, they realise that they waste time and worry for not doing anything useful. Thinking of collecting some list of small tasks to contribute to Free Software in any way. some tasks are 1.

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Sriram Karra
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > Hi, > > I want to gauge my 6 year old daughter's interest in programming. She seems > fascinated with what I do... If she is interested, I would like to > introduce her to the joy of programming. Any recommendations for a first > programm

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Sundaram KR wrote: > For my son who is in ICSE school, they taught him Scratch and Alice when he > was 7. Both these 'free' software packages are very good first languages for > kids - they are fun, easy to learn and very powerful programming concepts can > be t

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Sundaram KR
> Any better choices? A language which will > be a foundation for her to explore and make better choices later and > a language which is not imposing and is fun? For my son who is in ICSE school, they taught him Scratch and Alice when he was 7. Both these 'free' software packages are very

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Harisankar P S
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > Hi, > > I want to gauge my 6 year old daughter's interest in programming. She seems > fascinated with what I do... If she is interested, I would like to > introduce her to the joy of programming. > http://hackety.com/ they have an appli

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Krishna
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > Hi, > > I want to gauge my 6 year old daughter's interest in programming. She seems > fascinated with what I do... If she is interested, I would like to > introduce her to the joy of programming. Any recommendations for a first > program

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > programming some 24 years back. Any better choices? A language which will > be a foundation for her to explore and make better choices later and > a language which is not imposing and is fun? > This is a tough question, because

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread M K Saravanan
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > introduce her to the joy of programming. Any recommendations for a first > programming language? My first choice would be BASIC with which I learnt > programming some 24 years back. Any better choices? A language which will > be a foundat