[Year 12 Its] Ideas for starting programming

[Mark Kelly]

Hi all.  My SoD kids will probably be starting with zero programming 
experience and I was tossing around ideas for a kick-off point.

So far I've thought of Microworlds (Logo) - they did in in year 7 so it 
should be a warm and fuzzy reminder of their childhoods  :-)

And Lego Mindstorms - they can program cars and robots.

Then they might be ready to go to VB or similar.

What do you guys use to kickstart programming?

Mark

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