[tlug] Getting Started with Programming

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Lyle H Saxon wrote:

> Incidentally - can you recommend something to get an eleven-year-old
> started with programming?  I'm not a programmer myself, but he's
> expressed an interest in programming and I'd like to get him started
> somehow.

Well, I won't claim much expertise in this area (I didn't start
programming until I was 13), but _The Little Schemer_ is a fun and
playful book set up as a series of problem-solving exercises that will
teach you some rather advanced things about computer programming. And
it's got cute illustrations as well. Give it a try!

    http://www.amazon.co.jp/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262560992/

(Hey, look, amazon.co.jp finally has the new URLs!)

cjs
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