<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">In case no one mentioned this to you already, consider <br>www.alice.org <br><br>I believe this came of out of CMU. <br><br><br>Sincerely, <br>Sam Al-Droubi, M.S.<br>saldroubi@yahoo.com<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/17/09, George Larson <i><george.g.larson@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: George Larson <george.g.larson@gmail.com><br>Subject: [wplug] Coding<br>To: "General user list" <wplug@wplug.org><br>Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 8:39 PM<br><br><div id="yiv3300832">Hello everybody!<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Advice??<br><br>Thanks!<br>G<br><br><br><br><br>
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