Re: Projects/Instruction Suitable for an 11 yr. Old?
Re: Projects/Instruction Suitable for an 11 yr. Old?
- Subject: Re: Projects/Instruction Suitable for an 11 yr. Old?
- From: julifos <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:15:33 +0200
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My boy wants to "learn how to program" :-) I learned by keying
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hexadecimal microinstruction op codes into a Packard Bell 440. I don't
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think that's what he has in mind :-)
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I figure AppleScript is as good as anything for learning the general
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concepts such as variable types, looping, conditionals, subroutines,
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input, and output... and I don't have to buy anything else.
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I would be interested in any appropriate resources (for an 11 yr old) or
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any suggestions for beginner level projects that I could give him to do.
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Using display dialog to respond "Hello" gets old pretty quick, especially
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when he has visions of developing the next "Star Wars, Galactic
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Battleground".
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Thanks for any suggestions.
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Steve
The following was *my* next project:
Monitorize a folder containing subfolders called, eg: 5, 15, 30, 60 (which
are "minutes").
Then, every 5-15-whatever minutes, the main script will run the nesteed
compiled scripts.
The "main" script would be a *great* project, and nesteed-scripts can be
several kinds of tasks, such as display current date & time, empty the trash
or check mail...
JJ
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