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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Gregg N
date: 2005-10-02 13:38:20
subject: Re: Kids Programming Language from MS ?

From: Gregg N 

Rich Gauszka wrote:

>Kid's Programming Language
>KPL is composed of:
>
>  a.. a readable and modular programming language
>
>
>  b.. a kid-usable but functionally complete integrated development
>environment
>
>
>  c.. a growing collection of fun sample programs and games
>
>
>  d.. an experience designed to make it fun for kids learning to code
>KPL is available as a freeware download from http://www.ms-inc.net/kpl.aspx.
>The default KPL download is English-language, but a Polish-language download
>is available now, and Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, Norwegian, German and
>Romanian translations are under way.
>

Reminds me of Squeak:

http://www.squeakland.org/

one of whose goals is to teach programming to children. Squeak is an
implementation of Smalltalk.

Gregg

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