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On Friday 17 December 2004 05:08, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> So what does one use for teaching basic programming to kids these days.
> (pre-algebraic 5th graders, to be specific.)  I haven't heard anything
> about LOGO in a long time, and Pascal seems a bit dated and uncommon.

I would just skip LOGO.. it doesn't teach you anything that BASIC can't... =
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would recommend doing some BASIC and later PASCAL... Oh, PASCAL is far from=
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dead... hehe... Borland Delphi is currently at v10 I think... You can even=
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get the FreePascal compiler... That one can even compile code for 68K, PPC,=
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ARM and others... But then, I've always been partial to Pascal.. It's a=20
beautiful language (if a language could be beautiful)...

I don't think that there are many books of this sort... I would suggest tha=
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you just teach the basics... no subroutines or such... just the basic jump=
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here and there, do some loops... get some input and output... and then, lea=
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the rest to the child...

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with metta,
Shawn Tan


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