Re:Teaching My Daughter To Code
by ivan on Sunday January 20, 2008 @04:22PM
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:) My son is 10. I really don't know (can't make a decision) which language to teach him.
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Re:Teaching My Daughter To Code
by abstractbill on Sunday January 20, 2008 @06:40PM
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I learned Lisp aged 12, after messing around a bit with Basic. I consider myself very lucky for having had that experience. Writing an ELIZA clone at that age was a lot of fun - I remember in particular thinking it was hilarious to give my version a very rude personality ;-)
The original designers of Smalltalk taught a load of primary school kids to program. So squeak may be a good bet.
There was even a video on it. I think I saw this in one of Alan Kay's UI videos that are available here: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906...