PHP For Kids
Why it's always Basic that is teached for kids to give them the first steps into computer programming ? Why there is not a PHP for kids, a minimal edition of the scripting langage or probably the same but for desktop. Kids love especially the graphics part of programming, like plot, circle, rect, color ...
Since PHP have more functions, a PHP for Kids could be simply an abstraction library providing the basic functions. For example in spite of using the image library and create the image object, then draw line ... etc, the PHP for kids have an image object in mind, and as soon as you draw a line it will be displayed on the screen.
Simple and easy, the purpose will be especially educational and in the same time we teach kids something useful, better than Basics and Pascal. Maybe Kids today will be interested more into web programming too, and in that case they'll find themselves ready to go.
Any volunteers to work on this ?
