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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Just Enough Pascal: good for kids?
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Date: 7 Dec 89 16:03:35 GMT
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In article <4165@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0818a@prism.gatech.EDU (Paul E. Robichaux) writes:

>I use (and love!) Lightspeed Pascal; I was wondering about their "Just Enough
>Pascal" tutorial package. I don't know how appropriate it is for an 11-year-old,
>and I don't know of any other tutorial packages like that available.
>
>If you use, and like, JEP, please let me know your evaluation of its age
>range. If you know of any other general "intro to programming" tutorials
>(ChipWits might do it, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.) response would
>be very welcome.

	If you think that he's able to pick up Pascal, then JEP would probably
be OK; It doesn't make any assumptions about the age of the user, and it 
doesn't get terribly complicated...

R.




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