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Look at storytelling Alice. It's a PhD thesis mod of Alice, designed to help kids (especially girls) get into programming. http://www.alice.org/kelleher/storyt

• biggitybones 17y ago
  Another vote for Alice.. I had an intro to engineering course freshman year that spent 3-4 weeks with Alice to teach basic programming concepts for non-comp sci people and beginners. It's the perfect tool for developing basic concepts of programming, but in a fun environment that doesn't "feel" like coding.
  • serichsen 17y ago
    I have a deep mistrust of Alice. When everything you do is done by pulling something from a menu, how do you even think about creating something basic that is not already in those menus? It is almost like expecting to learn a lot about civil engineering by playing with Lego. Certainly, there are many things you would find superficially similar, but the essence is missing. Yes, I am exaggerating, but you see where my mistrust comes from.