Path: utzoo!censor!hugh
From: hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Programming language for youngsters
Summary: just kidding (mostly)
Message-ID: <127@censor.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 03:57:43 GMT
References: <7200067@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <557@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <13790@cisunx.UUCP>
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In article <13790@cisunx.UUCP>, ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
> In article <557@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> akg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Hughey) writes:
> >In article <7200067@m.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> >>
> >>Well, my girlfriend decided to take the plunge.  She's buying an Amiga
> >>500 for herself and her kids this Christmas.  She has an 8-year-old and
> >>an 11-year-old.  Any suggestions on good programming languages that the
> >>11-year-old could start out on?  I've heard it said that learning BASIC
> >>as your first language could make you brain-dead for life, and I believe
> >>it to be true.
> 
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> ---
> Eric Kennedy
> ejkst@cisunx.UUCP

Just get her & the kids started with machine language (assembler is
too abstract), or if you prefer try APL or some other language that
really wants to have a special non-standard keyboard. :-),...,:-)

Seriously, AmigaBasic is probably the best bet for many reasons & it
doesn't have to cause permanent brain damage.  Just make sure you
provide a good book on programming style.  There are lots out for
basic, a few of them even good, and some of them should use a
dialect close enough to AmigaBasic that the examples shouldn't be
hard to get working.

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