By rick
via education.zdnet.com
Published: Jul 02 2008 / 10:00
What language (or languages) should we be teaching at the high school level to introduce kids to computer science and programmatic thinking? I’m not talking about turning out programmers; I want kids to think algorithmically and know what I mean when I say high-level programming language.
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Comments
Abhay Bakshi replied ago:
Use http://www.alice.org as an effective tool in this case. Thanks to Carnegie Mellon Univ.
greenIridium replied ago:
I think best options are some kind of Pascal, and in superior courses, teach Java directly. And of course, it would be good and fun teach them X3D, that is the modern LOGO with very much steroids .
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