[K12OSN] ISO: Good programming language to teach an 8yr old

[Bob Robnett]

Whatever you teach them, teach them to program first---Input, Output,
Processing; pseudocode; document, document, document.

Bob Robnett

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Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:48 AM
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Subject: RE: [K12OSN] ISO: Good programming language to teach an 8yr old


But Fortran is the language of High Performance Computing!  I use it
everyday at work. :)

Seriously, don't teach it first.  Java, Python or anything else OO first.
Fortran 2000 (or whatever it ends up being) will be OO as well and if the
kids choose Engineering/technical (like me), then they will learn it (one
way or the other).

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins
> How soon you forget FORTRAN.  :)
> Not that I'm recommending that be taught, of course.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:les at futuresource.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 1:50 PM
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> Linux distribution.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] ISO: Good programming language to teach an 8yr old
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:29, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>
> > Python is a very good general-purpose scripting language that will teach
> > the kid good programming practices right from the start. :)
> >
>
> But if you want them to ever be able to deal with other languages
> you should warn them that it is unusual (no, bizarre...) for whitespace
> to be significant.
>
> ---
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
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