Teach Me Programming - Blog

Before a student starts tackling object oriented programming, he should at least understand the basic concepts of the OO paradigm.  Here is a video tutorial that talks about inheritance.

Scratch users, if you are ready to write some real code after having programmed in high level Scratch blocks, here's a wonderful programming environment for you.  Let's tackle learning Java using Greenfoot, one step at a time, using your knowledge from Scratch as your guide.

The Scratch Programming Environment is a great place to begin learning how to program for children starting from elementary school.  As it has gained popularity among its global community, Scratch Day events are also held all over the world.  One in particular was held recently at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

If you have been a faithful Scratch programmer, and are now ready to tackle some serious Java programming, try Greenfoot.  It is a perfect transition for Scratch programmers as you apply the concepts you learned in Scratch and attempt to implement the underlying Scratch blocks in real Java.