Re: LOGO-L> Books for teaching kids programming

["Charles T. Smith" <mrchuc@math.fan.org>]

Hello,

This may be too much too soon for your son, but if he is really good a
math, The Logo Foundation
<http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/logo-foundation/> has a book called
"Investigations in Algebra" by Albert Cuoco. I have found it a lot of fun
for myself. It is aimed at high school Albebra II, however.

On the other hand, there are several other resources on the same web site.
The books can be found at
<http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/logo-foundation/books.html>

Hope this helps.

Chuc



>I have a 12 year old son whose interest in computers is pretty intense and I'd
>like to encourage him to do something beyond word processing and playing
>games.
>Can anyone recommend a good book for someone his age that would get him
>started
>learning to program?  (I'm a programmer so you can assume that I would be
>helping him.)
>
>When we looked a year or so ago, we found a few, old (early 1980's) books on
>Logo at the library but they were pretty limited.  What I'm looking for is
>something that might be used as curriculum in a Jr. High/High School class -
>complete with projects to do etc.
>
>The language - I'd prefer C++ or Java but if the materials were good that
>would
>be more important than which language we were using.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jim Young
>
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