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Post of the day, maybe the week.

I have a seven year old daughter with a strong interest in hacking. Her old man just isn't quite sure how to get her going, but this summer we will try something or other.



You might have a look at Scratch, a visual programming environment for kids. You plug variables and programming constructs together.

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Here's my Towers of Hanoi from a few years ago. It runs on Windows Firefox, but I can't get it to run on Linux Firefox or Chrome; Scratch and Linux's Java plugin must have parted ways in the intervening years.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/nfnaaron/93232


Update: I uninstalled iced tea, installed sun jdk 6, scratch now works fine with the new java plugin.




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