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The answer to the problem of introducing computational thinking to kids surely doesn't lie in a straightforward return to the past. For some notable efforts, see http://scratch.mit.edu/, http://www.agentsheets.com/, or the older http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) which has some modern variants such as StarLogo.


My soon to be 8 year old is enjoying Scratch immensely. (As am I.)

Without any instruction, apart from two tutorials from YouTube, he has made a number of exploratory programs.

I cannot recommend it more highly then seeing him dancing in delight as he showed his mother how the flying bit of doodle (made with the in-skin paint widget) that shoots from the mouth of the cat makes the stick men 'ghost'.

He set up broadcasts, loops, events, and keyboard control, all on his own.




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