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On Nov 13, 6:35=A0am, Georg Maubach <nob...@nowhere.org> wrote:

> in the last years efforts have been made to make programming easier and
> understandble by kids.
>
> What if we would apply this approach to the Ada programming language?
> This means that we could write programs using icons and put together the
> commands in a graphical manner. This would lead to easier programming,
> faster bug fixing and better programs.

Most of the children in the classes I hear of (girls about 10)
consider they've done OK if they can get Mindstorms to drive a robot
fron one side of the room to another while playing a merry tune.

Personally I think the school are to be congratulated on running a
class with real physical models; it'd be so easy to use virtual models
instead, and the children'd lose all that peskiness of real stuff.