Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
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See earlier posts on programming.
Also see Alice.
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Alan Kay's work with SmallTalk for kids... It's very interactive and fun.
http://www.squeakland.org/
and there is also NetLogo at
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
If you look at many of the CS departments, Java is widely supported as part of the introductory level programming courses. In my day, Stanford used Algol W and Pascal. Object-oriented programming approaches come in many languages but Java is still very popular.
Scott . . thanks so much for the suggestions. :)
Jim
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