On 1/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">J Aaron Farr</b> <<a href="mailto:farra@apache.org">farra@apache.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 1/30/06, Tej Shah <<a href="mailto:tshah@andrew.cmu.edu">tshah@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> Well, there is Alice (<a href="http://www.alice.org/">http://www.alice.org/</a>).<br>><br>> You don't seem to have to write any code but it at least gives the kids
<br>> an idea of computer logic.<br><br>I hadn't heard of Alice.<br><br>Someone else suggested Dr. Scheme and to point them to "How to Design<br>Programs" [1].</blockquote><div><br>As a point of reference, Alice was used as part of a program for high school students that I attended some years back.
<br><br>I have a vague understanding that it's since been rewritten, and I wasn't in the group that used it, but from what my friends at the time told me it was an interesting program to play with and they seemed to think that the experience was worthwhile. I believe I was told its scripting was either Python or Python-based at the time, but I don't know if that's still true.
<br><br>The good point is that I can vouch that it was successfully used by high school students. The downside is that it was a special program you had to test into (though the kids you're dealing with probably have more practical computer experience than most/all of us did due to being in a more practical type of program) so I really can't speak to how well it'd translate to this group.
<br><br>- Bobbie<br></div><br></div><br>