[wplug] Coding

[Sam Al-Droubi]

In case no one mentioned this to you already, consider 
www.alice.org 

I believe this came of out of CMU. 


Sincerely, 
Sam Al-Droubi, M.S.
saldroubi at yahoo.com

--- On Tue, 3/17/09, George Larson <george.g.larson at gmail.com> wrote:

From: George Larson <george.g.larson at gmail.com>
Subject: [wplug] Coding
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 8:39 PM

Hello everybody!

So, I've been (more or less) in IT fields for so long as I've been employed.  Most recently, I worked for Sony where I developed using primarily .NET and now I'm coding PHP in a LAMP environment.


Yesterday my 11 year old son, interested in ole' dad's work, asked about learning to code.  It is, of course, great that he is interested.  Conversely, I have no clue where to begin.

I'm figuring
that we should attend the next WPLUG meeting (if 11 year olds are welcome -- I'll check) but does anybody have any
suggestions on where to start?  When I was his age, I had C-64 and
I typed program listings out of magazines.  I know that MS recently released a beginner's version of VB but I'd rather get him pointed in a FOSS direction.  He loves Ubuntu.  We haven't tried Edubuntu yet.


Advice??

Thanks!
G






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