I've found Scratch to be very accessible for kids starting around 7. http://scratch.mit.edu/
The visual programming language was used by Lego for the Mindstorm platform, as well as others. I believe there is an Arduino front end too.
Scratch TNG is a 3d version of Scratch tilted to simulation.
Alice, Storytelling alice, and Alice 3 are all nice. Alice3 has an onion-skinning mode where the visual programming language can be peeled down to the underlaying Java code in a series of discrete abstraction steps.
Unity3d, recently made free, would be another step along. A non programmer can get somethings to happen pretty easily. Underneath you are scripting in a javascript variant, python, or C.
E. R. Burrough's Martian trilogy. A good way to open up discussions about the American civil war and the evil of organized & politicized religion as well.
Pratchett's Tiffany stories ( also available in CD form; excellent excellent listening )
Hienlien: Citizen of the Galaxy, The Star Beast, Have Spacesuit Will Travel ( also available in audio format ), Rocketship Galileo, the Rolling Stones...
The Robot stories, certainly.
Journey to the center of the earth, etc.
Simak's City. I must of read that 50 times as a pre-teen / teen.
The ballad of lost c'mell?
Some of the old Greek mythologies, popularized. Gives one a chance to discuss how people may of thought in those days. Robots too!
Peter Gabriel's web presence isn't just about his ( great ) music.
His Witness project, co-ordinating on-the-spot hand held video recordings of human rights violations, is imaginably a far more serious target.
http://www.witness.org/
from their site:
WITNESS was founded in 1992 by musician and activist Peter Gabriel and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation as a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). In 1988, Peter was part of Amnesty Internationalâ(TM)s Human Rights Now! Tour. He was struck by the stories he heard from survivors of human rights abuses and the lack of attention these stories received. Peter had brought along one of the first camcorder models and realized the potential of video as a tool against abuse; he noted that perpetrators of abuses were often brought to justice when photographic or video evidence of abuses existed
Peter Gabriel is always looking for secure ways to stream video content from troubled spots to his servers that they may be archived and shared.
If this project was effected by this theft that is far more of a crime than what is being discussed here. even phil collins.
This book has no coverage of configuring your LWP module to support SSL connections.
Perhaps it is trivial, but an overview would be useful to newbies.
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I've found Scratch to be very accessible for kids starting around 7. http://scratch.mit.edu/
The visual programming language was used by Lego for the Mindstorm platform, as well as others. I believe there is an Arduino front end too.
Scratch TNG is a 3d version of Scratch tilted to simulation.
Alice, Storytelling alice, and Alice 3 are all nice. Alice3 has an onion-skinning mode where the visual programming language can be peeled down to the underlaying Java code in a series of discrete abstraction steps.
Unity3d, recently made free, would be another step along. A non programmer can get somethings to happen pretty easily. Underneath you are scripting in a javascript variant, python, or C.
my son, now 10, as been programming ( the most silly and non sensible ) games in Scratch for a couple of years.
I encourage him to send them as birthday presents.
It's readily 'get' able, and their site is full of examples created by other kids in this age range.
There is a 3d mob world version as well. (!)
E. R. Burrough's Martian trilogy. A good way to open up discussions about the American civil war and the evil of organized & politicized religion as well.
Pratchett's Tiffany stories ( also available in CD form; excellent excellent listening )
Hienlien: Citizen of the Galaxy, The Star Beast, Have Spacesuit Will Travel ( also available in audio format ), Rocketship Galileo, the Rolling Stones...
The Robot stories, certainly.
Journey to the center of the earth, etc.
Simak's City. I must of read that 50 times as a pre-teen / teen.
The ballad of lost c'mell?
Some of the old Greek mythologies, popularized. Gives one a chance to discuss how people may of thought in those days. Robots too!
Peter Gabriel's web presence isn't just about his ( great ) music.
His Witness project, co-ordinating on-the-spot hand held video recordings of human rights violations, is imaginably a far more serious target.
http://www.witness.org/
from their site:
WITNESS was founded in 1992 by musician and activist Peter Gabriel and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation as a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). In 1988, Peter was part of Amnesty Internationalâ(TM)s Human Rights Now! Tour. He was struck by the stories he heard from survivors of human rights abuses and the lack of attention these stories received. Peter had brought along one of the first camcorder models and realized the potential of video as a tool against abuse; he noted that perpetrators of abuses were often brought to justice when photographic or video evidence of abuses existedPeter Gabriel is always looking for secure ways to stream video content from troubled spots to his servers that they may be archived and shared.
If this project was effected by this theft that is far more of a crime than what is being discussed here. even phil collins.
This book has no coverage of configuring your LWP module to support SSL connections. Perhaps it is trivial, but an overview would be useful to newbies.