On Dec 17, 2004, at 8:56 AM, Bob Ammerman wrote:

> My 14 y.o. son programs in the following environments:
>
> 2) Using GameMaker - a development environment using an object 
> oriented model and C-like syntax to design computer games.

"Gamemaker" sounds interesting.  Is that
    http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/ ?

I'm not overly picky about (for instances) basic's "improper teaching
of fundamental concepts (gotos considered evil!)", but I was hoping for
something that would create programs more like the programs kids today
actually use.  Being constrained to a TTY-like I/O system would not be
good.

I'll have to look at that smalltalk environment;   I bounced off 
smalltalk
circa 1985 when I noticed how inefficiently it used the then-SOTA sun 
workstation,
but I guess a modern PC might have enough horsepower to change things 
:-)

And thanks to whoever mentioned open office macros; A neat idea, again
putting the programming into the more "typical" environment.  She's 
already
fiddling with raw HTML, Office macros that make that easier might be 
right
up her alley...

BillW
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