Hi Pete, Jason - I second scratch as it's very common for that age range. The following are kid-friendly versions of industry tools like LabView or Simulink. These tools adopt a paradigm of programming through drag-n-drop elements vs. text coding. The main difference (between text based coding and drag-n-drop coding) being that the engagement can be much higher with our young ones. - http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects/kodu - http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/history/default.aspx Best, Vimal On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote: > On 07/10/2013 06:12 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > While my two boys (ages 9 & 13) are at home for the summer I currently > > keep them active by giving them fun math and science projects. > > > > I had the idea to have them become more familiar with basic programming > > concepts and perhaps be able to write the proverbial"hello world" > program. > > 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. > > > > Does anyone know of some resources for simple and fun programming > > projects for kids. I don't particularly care about which language, but > > we are on Windows platform. > > I'd try scratch.mit.edu or alice.org to start. For more advanced budding > programmers, robocode.sf.net or appinventor.mit.edu might be fun. There > are more, those are just ones that I have used or taught personally. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Vimal (rhymes with Kimmel) Shah Front-End / Infrastructure Engineer Sokikom Mobile: (480) 752-9269 Email: vimals@sokikom.com Web: www.sokikom.com Follow us: twitter.com/sokikom Like us: facebook.com/sokikom