[olpc-help] Fwd: [OLPC-Philippines] CACM article: Scratch: Programming for All

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From: <rayb at apc.edu.ph>
Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:59 AM
Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] CACM article: Scratch: Programming for All
To: olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org
Cc: APC-OLPC <apc-olpc at apc.edu.ph>


Hi, all,

The cover story of the November issue of Communications of the ACM is about
the Scratch visual programming environment:
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48421-scratch-programming-for-all/fulltext

Scratch is one of the activities installed on the XO.  A related package is
Etoys --mentioned in the article but not discussed further.  About all I
know of these packages is that both are implemented in Squeak Smalltalk and
both enable multimedia authoring.  So I ask those in the know: which would
be better for introducing programming to middle school or high school kids?

Best,

Ray
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