mike@altera.UUCP (02/13/87)
My five year old daughter has been using the family Amiga
since well before her last birthday. The workbench
interface and two-button mouse seem perfectly natural to her.
It has been great fun watching her learn to pull down menus
and select items and draw and fill... ("Would you buy me
more disks, Daddy?") She cannot actually read (unless she's
conning me :-)), but evidently kids don't have any problem
memorizing PATTERNS of letters in menu items of interest.
I'd like to start to teach her to program, but I want to
keep it fun and visually-oriented. For example, she's
already asked me questions such as "What's the biggest
number?" Seems like a obvious lead-in to use the computer
to explore the natural numbers. But again, I don't want
to type in a C program for her that dumps digit strings
to the screen... somehow I don't think she'd be too interested
in argc and argv...
Friends have mentioned LOGO, but no vendor version seems available.
So here's my question for the net: What's out there that
will help me to help her get started?
I may be reached at:
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