Re: Fw: Re: junior-programming
On (15/05/01 10:56), Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 1. BASIC is not a good beginner's language.
>
> 2. As much as we would have liked to include it, I think our own bias
> towards BASIC is that we started with that language. Let's set
> nostalgia aside and think what is best for the children.
I started with BASIC when I was 6 years old. Seemed like an excellent
beginners language to me at the time. Still does. It was very easy to
produce something that made "sense" in English and that produced a
definite result. IIRC, I more or less started by making a Choose Your
Own Adventure book into a BASIC game.
However, my experience of other languages is very very limited. I just
thought an opinion might be useful to somebody...
Ailbhe
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