Programming for children

1 points by cmullaparthi 15y ago ↗ HN

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.

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hector_ka 15y ago ↗

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.

cmullaparthi 15y ago ↗

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look.

HardyLeung 15y ago ↗

Why not plain old Javascript?

Yes, I hadn't thought of that! Thanks for the suggestion.