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I'm surprised no one has mentioned hackety hack, it was a project designed around the super simple shoes gui framework by _why? specifically to make it easy/fun to get kids into programming and help people design engaging curriculum for teaching kids the basics
of programming. Ruby is also a fairly practical language to learn first as it's used out in the world a lot but abstracts a lot of the nasty bits away from beginners.
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<div>It's probably at least worth taking a quick look at: <a href="http://hackety.com/" title="http://hackety.com/
Cmd+Click to follow link">http://hackety.com/</a><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org <plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org> on behalf of AZ Pete <plug@cactusfamily.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 10, 2013 6:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PLUG Discuss<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Programming for Kids</font>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Hi All,<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri">While my <font face="Calibri">
<font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri">two boys (ages <font face="Calibri">
9 & 13) are at home for the summer </font></font></font><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri">I
curren<font face="Calibri">tly keep them active by giving them fun math and science projects</font>.
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</font>I had the idea to have th<font face="Calibri">em </font>become more familiar with basic programming concepts and perhaps
<font face="Calibri">be able to w<font face="Calibri">rite the pr<font face="Calibri">overbi<font face="Calibri">al<font face="Calibri"> "hello world"
</font></font></font>program.<br>
I believe that programming (of any kind) is a required, core competency skill required for any kind of work in the 21st century, whether that work is in the tech industry or not.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri">Does anyone <font face="Calibri">
know o<font face="Calibri">f </font>some resources for simple and fun programming projects for kids. I don't particularly care abo<font face="Calibri">ut
<font face="Calibri">whi<font face="Calibri">ch langua<font face="Calibri">ge<font face="Calibri">, but we are on Windo<font face="Calibri">ws plat<font face="Calibri">form.
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Any ideas would appreciated<font face="Calibri">.<br>
<font face="Calibri">Thanks,<br>
<font face="Calibri">Peter<br>
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