Open Source and Young Programmers

In previous entries I spoke of teaching my young Granddaughter to code. It is a bit tough keeping the attention focused but the tools work very well. I receive emails from opensource.com and this latest email highlighted  Blockly. This is the engine behind the code tutorials on code.org. It is a slick tool. This was developed mostly by Google Engineers. 

Here is the link to the Article

http://opensource.com/education/15/2/blockly-makes-easier-every-one-learn-code?sc_cid=70160000000erQxAAI&elq=4c6d5e9c64dd4c3b95999991bdd66994&elqCampaignId=48552&elqaid=17781&elqat=1&elqTrackId=0921b41d7eb34afd876f9f32821dd01d