logo costs about �80 here in the UK. Litte'un has an unboxed Lego Mindstorms off Santa, so maybe I can get him to look at that.

I downloaded Alice 2.2 and, being of the 'older' systems generation managed to install it onto my desktop with the usual befuddlement with these PC things. Anyhow, te little fella and I took a look and it looks great.

Scratch I downloaded and I am quite impressed in how you can build up lists of instructions then wrap them in a repeat sequence (iteration as systems people might say smile ). I will plig this onw with Little'un, probably because I understand the way it works better - if I can ust figure out how to change the iterations once their in place without deleteing the whole 'program'

Phew!