Hi...

In my opinion the Car with etoys is a very good example, becouse our work is create objects and get fun with it.

TIA,

Diego Gomez Deck

>Sorry for the long title :-).
>
>My kids' school (basisschool/grundschule/6-12 years) has a yearly
>school party/fair, always with some nice theme, and this year's theme is
>"what do you want to become when you grow up?". As part of the theme,
>they are asking parents to chat with the kids about their jobs. The format is
>groups of ~8 kids, you get around twenty minutes with each group.
>
>My wife has an easy one - as a dentist's assistant she only needs so show up
>with some scary equipment, hand all the kids a mirror to inspect each other's
>teeth, and that's it. 
>
>But how (with a couple - how many? - computers at hand running Squeak) do
>you explain to kids of, say, 8 years old the essence of a computer 
>programmer's job?
>
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