Teaching programming to kids

Posted Aug 11, 2012 1:28 UTC (Sat) by spigot (subscriber, #50709)
Parent article: TXLF: TexOS teaching open source

Chris Smith used Haskell to introduce kids to programming. The exercises emphasized simple graphics and animations using the high-level Gloss library. He blogged about the first eight classes, and based on his reports it seems to have been quite successful.

This Reddit thread answers the question, "Why Haskell?", and he introduces his series of posts with this entry. For those interested in doing something similar, it might be worthwhile to contact him.