Have started teaching Aasim Logo programming about a week ago, we started with KTurtle, Aasim also liked the very nice KDE interface but to my dismay it has a bug in displaying the correct line numbers when errors occur. While this is OK of now when I can tell Aasim which line he went wrong – it will soon hamper his experimentation besides it does not have bindings to any toolkit which means no Windowed application programming which he hopes to do.
Searching around I found MSWLogo and the more popular and commercial MicroWorlds EX. However I was horrified by the WYSIWYG style of MicroWorlds (it seems to be modeled after some M$ IDE ) and quickly rejected it.
So for now it will be MSWLogo which even though very plain looking fits the bill perfectly, best of all there is a wonderful free book called The Great Logo Adventure aimed at children which uses MSWLogo as the base.
Lets see how long Aasim’s interest lasts – more than teaching programming the idea is to give him logical and problem solving skill, but I do hope that he keeps at it and perhaps takes up C (with or without ++) in near future.
I guess I will have to learn a bit of teaching skills from his tabla teacher who has managed to enchant him into the world of music.
In the daily drudgery department – the painting of walls etc at home has been completed as has been the construction of my Studio, will have the electric wiring and the backdrop system in place the coming week. Hopefully next Sunday I will be able to have a shoot there.