20 April 2013

Hello Mathgirl,

You might be preferred to be called light-girl, the superhero you made up who flies and makes light come from her hands.  Is there a Spiderman hero like her?  You have been watching the cartoon Peter Parker for some time.

So Slashdot asked a question near and dear to my heart.  How to teach visual programming to kiddos.  You are a kiddo.  (link to earlier post on Robots, Software and Hope)  Here is the slashdot link.  (link)  The really valuable part is the comments, not the question itself.

List of candidate languages:

• Scratch - http://scratch.mit.edu/
• Squeak - http://www.squeak.org/
• E-Toys (squeak)- http://www.squeakland.org/
• (net) Logo - http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
• Guido van Robot (GvR) - http://gvr.sourceforge.net/index.php
• Lego Mindstorm Software - http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Software/Default.aspx
• Kturtle (logo) - http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/
• ChipWits - http://www.chipwits.com/
• StarLogo - http://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogo-tng
• Kudo - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/
• Blockly - https://code.google.com/p/blockly/  
• NSB - http://www.nsbasic.com/app/
• Alice - http://www.alice.org/index.php
• Game Maker - 

Back to cleaning house.  Clutter, junks.  We are going to be interviewed for fostering.  Gotta go.  Talk more later.

-mathdad