NOTE 5/27/2006: Because of huge amounts of wiki spam, there is now a password required to post messages or edit pages. The password is the last name of the main author of Practical Programming in Tcl/Tk, all in lowercase. Any questions or problems, please contact mark at markroseman.com. Thanks!

This is the home page for the Young Programmers Project.

The idea:

Write a book for people who want to learn how to program. The programming language that they start with is Tcl and all the software that is needed is part of the project (relying on starkit technology).

The target group is young people of the age 8 to 15 years (very roughly) but any unexperienced person should be able to learn from this as well.

See Group Members, Todo, and Meetings.

Contents

• Overview of the chapters and their contents
• Links to the chapters for which there is at least some text

Working environment

• Should contain a starkit in the near future

Related work

• Links to sites that contain material with similar intentions

The first four chapters are in quite reasonable shape - your comments please!

Hints on Getting Started

Posted at Sep 25/2003 10:06 PM:
Greate idea.

Posted at Mar 06/2004 03:23 AM:
RobertAbitbol: And where are those first 4 chapters?

Posted at Apr 12/2004 12:00 PM:
Better learn the kids C++, and introduce them to some general hardware, then later as you begin doing more complex things introduce new hardware etc...

- Julian

Posted at Jun 14/2004 08:46 AM:
LVirden: With regards to Robert's question about the location of the first 4 chapters, Robert, just click on the "Contents" link above and you should see the various chapters written to date.

Posted at Jun 15/2004 12:46 AM:
Larry Virden: There's plenty of time later to learn C++, hardware, etc.

Posted at Aug 18/2004 08:40 AM:
Sarah Grice: Well, I'm your target audience. Trying to shove it all in Notebook format so I can haul it around with me.

Posted at Oct 06/2004 08:03 AM:
Fantastic :)

http://www.youngcoders.com is also a good resource for younger people that are interested in computer programming