junior/tasks/programming

Task: programming
Description: Debian Jr. programming
 The emphasis for this sampling of programming packages for children
 is first on simple interpreted languages.  Also important for using
 languages with children are good documentation, and some ability to
 produce visual programs without too much effort.  It is by no means
 a complete list, and you are encouraged to explore other languages
 with children as well; even those that are not specifically aimed for
 children.
 .
 The Logo language is specifically designed for children, with a strong
 emphasis on the visual and concrete.  Littlewizard is an icon-based
 graphical programming language also designed for children.
 .
 Scratch is an easy, interactive, collaborative, visual programming language
 with children from ages 8 and up as their target group.
 .
 Arduino is a popular micro controller that is widely used by both people
 learning electronics and programming as well as seasoned veterans doing
 complex projects. It is necessary to connect a physical Arduino circuit board
 in order to experiment with arduino.

Recommends: arduino

Recommends: gvrng, kturtle, littlewizard

Recommends: laby

Recommends: puredata

Recommends: scratch

Recommends: sonic-pi

Recommends: squeak-plugins-scratch

Recommends: squeak-vm

Recommends: shoes | shoes4
Why: This package has existed in Debian but was removed due to lack of interest.
Homepage: http://shoesrb.com/
License: Expat
Pkg-Description: tiny graphics and windowing toolkit using Ruby
 Shoes is a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit for making simple
 graphical applications. It blends ideas from the web (hyperlinks, simple text
 layout, and more) from traditional windowing toolkits (buttons, progress bars,
 dialogs and the like) and applications like NodeBox and Processing (drawing
 anywhere on the window with shapes and curves, simple animation).
 .
 Shoes uses Ruby as its interface language; applications created with it can
 run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.