The Six Year Old Hacker: References and resources: Educational Theory, Piaget, Montessori, Papert and others: http://education.indiana.edu/~p540/webcourse/develop.html http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/piaget.html http://www.montessori.edu/ http://www.montessori.org/ Stoll Lillard, Angeline; Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius (Oxford University Press 2005) http://www.papert.org/ Papert, Seymour; Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, (Basic Books 1999) Papert, Seymour; Constructionism Research Reports and Essays, 1985-1990 (Greenwood Pub Group 1991) Programing: LOGO Foundation. http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/ UCB LOGO, runs under several OSs. A good source for serious LOGO programing texts. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html Windows version of LOGO derived from UCB LOGO. Runs well under Wine. Good links. http://www.softronix.com/logo.html Two good sources for programing projects. Life and CoreWar! Dewdney, A. K.; Armchair Universe: An Exploration of Computer Worlds (New York: W. H Freeman & Co 1988) Dewdney, A. K.; The Tinkertoy Computer and Other Machinations: Computer Recreations... (New York:W. H Freeman & Co 1993)