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My ten year old daughter has been asking me to teach her to program.
She has had a little exposure to computers at school, but there has
not been any real programming.   I've gotten a copy of mswLogo,  but
now I don't know what the next step should be.

I would like her to be working independently as much as possible, but
it would be good to have an idea of where to nudge her.

It would be great if there were an interactive tutorial system that
could teach the fundimentals.  One of the first systems that I learned
on, the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, had a "teach" command.  "Teach"
would let anyone who wanted to sit down at the terminal (a tty33)
learn BASIC at their own pace without anyone else having to help them.

I'd like to hear from others who have experience with teaching their
own children.  I'd also be interested in some discussion about the
merits of some of the other programming language choices:  BASIC,
SCHEME, SmallTalk, C, anything else?  By the way,  I'm using a
pc clone running DOS 5 and windows.


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Clarke Thacher        OSRD/HIP Software Developer          SAS Institute, Inc.
thacher@unx.sas.com         (919) 677-8000    SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513