[K12OSN] Programming Languages

[Chris Thomas]

Far a visual Basic alternative on Linux, I would check
out Mono Basic and GTK# on www.go-mono.com . I don't
think the MonoDevelop IDE, http://www.monodevelop.com/
supports Mono Basic, but it does support C#.

--- Liam Marshall <lsrpm at mts.net> wrote:
> In the past years, while working with the evil
> empire of Microsoft, I
> was teaching among other things, two programming
> classes.  One Grade 11
> class using the medium of Visual Basic, and one
> grade 12 class using the
> medium of Java.
> 
> I have managed to convince the school to let me
> break away from the evil
> empire and go to linux in the lab completely. 
> Specifically, I am using
> K12LTSP with thin clients.  I have 32 workstations
> all connecting to my
> server now,( a bit of work but worth it compared to
> the wiping out of
> workstation hard drives and reloading from scratch
> that I do every year
> during the summer)
> 
> I have Java workable on the workstations and am
> using an IDE from SUN
> (NetBeans IDE 3.6)  it works great!
> 
> Now I am looking for a replacement for Visual Basic,
> which will never
> work under Linux.  It doesn't have to be Visual
> Basic, I was just using
> it before because frankly, it was an easy to learn
> language with alot of
> mouse work.  The operative word is EASY.  That way I
> could focus on the
> concepts of programming without having to focus on
> learning the
> mechanics of the programming language.  With Visual
> Basic the mechanics
> comes more or less naturally.
> 
> What I would like is some language usable with linux
> that is of a
> similar nature.  I would prefer a language that has
> a nice visual
> component (IDE, read EASY) so that the students
> introduction to
> programming is not like throwing them into the deep
> end of the pool of
> programming.
> 
> Does such an animal exist?  And did I mention that
> it should be free, at
> least for schools?  I convinced them to let me go to
> Linux at least
> partially with the argument that cost was minimal,
> if anything.
> 
> Please advice.  I appreciate all your help, in
> advance
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