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Programming for children

My daughter who is in primary school has an assignment to write a program to calculate the dates of Easter for any given year. A programming language to use has not been specified. What language should I teach her to use? She's got three weeks.

As a bonus, it will be extremely cool if it is something which she can take into school on a USB stick and actually run a demo without having to install anything on the school machines. All her school machines are Windows machines.

( 4 comments | on HN )
Re:Programming for children by hector_ka on Friday April 01, 2011 @10:20AM (#2396322)
You could use Visual Studio Express 2010 which is free http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/ Create an executable Run it from stick. You could create a really short command line program with no OOP concepts so it is going to be easy for your doughter.
Re:Programming for children by cmullaparthi on Friday April 01, 2011 @11:47AM (#2396687)
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look.
Re:Programming for children by HardyLeung on Friday April 01, 2011 @01:19PM (#2397088)
Why not plain old Javascript?
Re:Programming for children by cmullaparthi on Sunday April 03, 2011 @03:45AM (#2402098)
Yes, I hadn't thought of that! Thanks for the suggestion.