I posted this to the mailing list, but I thought it might been of interest to our many(!) blog readers too.

At Wednesday’s meeting there was a discussion about how in the ‘olden days’ (the 80′s) when a child got a computer it booted up into a programming environment. These days if they want to do programming they have to go searching to set up some kind of IDE. We also talked about putting a programming environment on a phone as a way to get kids into programming. Well I’ve just seen an article mirroring this discussion exactly.

Adrian suggested that Javascript might be the language to use, since it is on virtually every machine out there.