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lewis.donofrio · 2009-05-22, 17:24

Folks,

Paint me crazy but anyone out here have a python turtle?

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~selfpace/.../Turtle.py

I'd like my boys to learn how to program and I'm thinking the xboxes in the rooms (they already have em) would be a nice way to learn....forward backwards left right??

unless I'm way off.... Nerd

tamuin · (This post was last modified: 2009-05-22, 20:23 by tamuin.)

If you want to start your boys out programming, start with scratch, check out scratch.mit.edu and learnscratch.org. They may out grow it quickly, but it is great to start on. There is a good windows and mac version, the linux version is "experimental", see info.scratch.mit.edu/Linux_installer

Gamester17 · 2009-05-23, 16:02

tamuin Wrote:If you want to start your boys out programming, start with scratch, check out scratch.mit.edu and learnscratch.org. They may out grow it quickly, but it is great to start on. There is a good windows and mac version, the linux version is "experimental", see info.scratch.mit.edu/Linux_installer

No offense but what does that has to do with XBMC or the Xbox? Huh

lewis.donofrio · 2009-05-26, 19:42

just the fact that my boys both have xboxes w/xbmc and and daily use xdsl (with keyboard and controller) and figured they would need to learn programming to create openxdk applications and this seemed like a "good start"

--correct me if I'm wrong... Huh

lens · 2009-05-28, 02:13

Not python, but have you tried http://www.yenka.com? The programming part lets you learn control by using flowcharts to control walking and dancing characters.

The package also includes loads of stuff for Physics, Electronics, Maths and Chemistry too. Great fun for inquiring young minds!

topfs2 · 2009-05-28, 09:35

lewis.donofrio Wrote:just the fact that my boys both have xboxes w/xbmc and and daily use xdsl (with keyboard and controller) and figured they would need to learn programming to create openxdk applications and this seemed like a "good start"

--correct me if I'm wrong...

To me python is a lovely language to start programing in, since it's script based it's easy to try, it's high level so it's easy to understand. It's also extremely close to psuedo code at places, it's object oriented. Also on linux it's really common.

Either if you let them do it in xbmc or not it will be good learning imo.