> 
>>Java, smalltalk or any OO language is probably not the best place to
>>start. The concepts that are required to make good OO programming is
>>too complex and are in addition to the basic coding of the methods
>>themselves. I think even C & derivatives are too complex in syntax,
>>kids get buggy eyed with all the curly braces really easily.
> 
> 
> The problem with pure BASIC are threefold:
> 
> 1) Virtually no structure. GOTO/GOSUB are the order of the day.
> 2) Lack of declaration of variables.
> 3) No parameter passing mechanism to speak of.
> 
> BASIC will get a kid from 0 to 10 (mph/kph). But after that?
> 

I learned BASIC when I was in 4th grade. It probably wasn't possible for 
me to understand something more complicated at least until 6th grade. 
When I got into 7th grade I started to try a little C programming 
because BASIC was slow (my homemade games ran really slow!)


>>You gota remember that basic programming is still going to have a lot
>>of concepts that are totally new to them (at least most of them).
> 
> 
> True. But since you get the concepts in any language, you may as well get
> them in a better structure.

I know that, in 4th grade, I would have had a REAL hard time with C syntax.


Martin Klingensmith
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