Learning to Program in Python for Kids

What basic "extra" software is required for programming and other major uses.

GIMP  Graphics Manipulation

Python  - the programming language

Geany - a GUI front end to Python

Programs such as geany do not come with the system so you need to download this. Different flavours of Linux do this in different ways often using diffferent commands.

Example of how to download geany.

I also decided to install Chromium - since I like Google Chrome ( and it isn't avaialble but the open source version is).

From the Command line

sudo apt-get chromium

This command downloads and installs the program into the graphical interface.