[wplug] 45 Minutes with High Schoolers

[Tej Shah]

Well, there is Alice (http://www.alice.org/).

You don't seem to have to write any code but it at least gives the kids 
an idea of computer logic.

J Aaron Farr wrote:
> Friday I have the opportunity to spend about 45 minutes with kids
> enrolled in the computer programming track at a local vo-tech school. 
> The message I'd really like to send to these kids is that they don't
> need to wait until the graduate or go to college to start doing some
> interesting programming (unlike some other subjects taught in vo-tech
> or high school).  With that in mind, I'm pondering over handing out
> articles by Paul Graham or ESR and maybe even a Knoppix CD or a CD of
> useful programming tools for Windows.
>
> Has anyone else done something similar?  Any suggestions?
>
> --
>   jaaron
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