Have you taken at look at Squeak Alice?  The Alice project
(http://www.alice.org) has been compared to a 3D version of Logo, and we've
found that kids as young as 7 or 8 can learn to use Alice.  The Squeak
version of Alice isn't quite as polished as the version our research group
has built (I only had 4 months vs. 4 years for our group), but the core
concepts are the same.

If you're interested, Play With Me - 7 demonstrates a little of Squeak
Alice, and my chapter (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/5) in the
upcoming Squeak book gives more detail.

Jeff

At 02:20 AM 8/22/00, Chris Macie wrote:
>Like the Smalltalk-72 stuff (Turtle etc.), Logo type stuff, also the
>tutorial stuff in earlier versions of Smalltalk/V -- it this sort of stuff
>still around, in or for Squeak?
>
>Having a 13-year old step-daughter who's artistically/creatively inclined,
>but spends too much time aimlessly surfing the internet, I begin to feel
>guilty not attempting to pass on the tradition in some form (having spent
>30+years in doing software, close to 2/3 of that time in Smalltalk).
>
>At her age and interest level, starting with theory of object-orientation,
>syntax, class hierarchies, GUI framework considerations etc. (I did some
>training at ParcPlace) is out of the question.
>
>Thanks for any hints.
>
>Chris Macie