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This is neat. Now we need some Linux environments for kids to make cool stuff. LÖVE [1] is a neat Lua-powered game development library, but it's fairly source-c
by jamesgeck0 16y ago
This is neat. Now we need some Linux environments for kids to make cool stuff. LÖVE [1] is a neat Lua-powered game development library, but it's fairly source-code oriented, which may be a barrier for some kids. When I first learned programming, Game Maker [2] was extremely useful. It had a drag-and-drop GUI which was easy enough to mess around with until figuring out how to do things in it's built-in (and extremely forgiving) programming language.
1. http://love2d.org/ http://love2d.org/
2. http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
- cicero 16y agoI've used Greenfoot [1], BlueJ [2] and Processing [3] successfully with High School kids, and they all run on Linux. Squeak Smalltalk [4] is another possibility. I've had pretty good luck with Game Maker, but have not tried LÖVE. 1. http://www.greenfoot.org/ http://www.greenfoot.org/ 2. http://bluej.org/ http://bluej.org/ 3. http://processing.org/ http://processing.org/ 4. http://www.squeak.org/ http://www.squeak.org/