Re: Beginner's Language?

["Dodger" <dodger@necrosoft.net>]

"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote in
message news:9d6b6e$1bt$1@nh.pace.co.uk...

> My advice for a first programming language would be Ada (for a lot of
> reasons besides being my favorite language :-) followed by Pascal & maybe
> Modula-2. Save the other stuff until the students have progressed a
little.

Got a better one. It's terrible (which is a better representation of what
they will end up doing, most likely), and wonky, and regardless of all your
opinions of perl for weal or woe, it makes Perl look beautiful...

But, it will get kids programming.

LPC. Set them up a mud. Get them to code LPC (a whacked out MUD code C-based
...thing...) or some other MU* code that is actually programmable.

After their fifth soul-sucking sword or beer vending machine or pseudo-AI
dragonbot, they will have some ideas of what they are doing, most likely,
and the ideas on how it really workds will sink into their brains.

Besides, think of it like this: You can theorise about what cough medicine
to give a two year old all you want, too, but Dimetapp tastes like Koolaid,
and they won't spit it out.

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