programing in Linux education

YanMing

This is YanMing from Silicon Valley, US.

Currently, I am working with a group of people in China for a IT
education environment for elementry schools and junior and high
schools.

Onething we encounter is "how to teach programing".

Now, most of the schools use MS VB for programing classes.

Please suggest how we can created something that can replace
MS VB to be used for programing classes in school.

I checked Borland Delphi and Kylix, but it seems Borland doesn't
provide free software for education. (StarOffice is free for edu.)

I hope we can have something that can produce graphical
programing output.

Thanks.

Yan Ming

onnoLinux

'Kdevelop',or may try SUN's Java IDE 'Java One'

flyaway

Kdevelop is a good programing tools for students, and QT is a convenient framework. They will give beginners a pellucid entrance. The students can also build c/c++ project to learn essential programming.

EdwardRF

teaching of programming need not start from GUI.
i think most of people will have their frist program print out "Hello World"-the famous word- in console. (aren't you?)
in addition using of IDE will make student have little idea about handling code by themselves.
Emacs, and GCC completely free and stable, is a good choice for you. and nealy every linux distribution have them.