Teaching Children to Program with Small Basic[Updated Jan 2013]
Many years ago Black Marble undertook to help people to program, not with the aim of turning out large numbers of developer minions but to show how learning to program teaches people how to break down and solve problems.
Lynn Lagit and LLewellyn Falco have produced a series of videos based on the workshops they are running for children as well as some extensions for Small Basic.
For convenience here are links to the videos, but I urge you look look at Lynn’s blog for more details
To get Going click on the HERE links I would suggest looking at all of the information.
The Small Basic Microsoft official site is here
Download Small Basic HERE
Getting Started look here
The Small Basic site with more useful information is here
Small Basic free EBooks are here
If you are a Parent of Educator there is a Curriculum pack Here download in one go HERE
There is also a companion site with resources and recipes for learning at http://teachingkidsprogramming.org/
The recipes for kids to follow are here but you will need to install an add-on for Small Basic which adds Logo style components like turtle! The add on site is here
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