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

Vern Ceder vceder at canterburyschool.org
Fri Mar 19 19:11:05 UTC 2004


Actually, we've had kids go from C++ and Java to Python and from Python 
to Java, and the whitespace issue doesn't seem to be a problem at all 
after a day or two...

Vern

Les Mikesell wrote:

> 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.
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