How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar

Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by Endy on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:28PM (#16767601)

I say this as a joke, but what if he'd wanted to learn FlashScript instead of Java or C*?

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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by rbanffy on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:25PM (#16769690)

Programming is the hard part. Language is a detail.

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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by sandov on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:42PM (#16769436)

He'd be selling drugs by now.

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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by NPMaxwell on Friday April 06, 2018 @01:15PM (#16775029)

:) We did reach out to developers and got our list (Java or C/C++) from them. There's a serious parenting question in your joke. We presented the whole thing as if we were in control: it's an illusion. He could have screamed, "SCREW YOU!", and locked himself in his room. As it was, we said, "It has to be Java or C" and he believed us. Lucky!

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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by ratsimihah on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:50PM (#16769835)

What’s FlashScript? I first “picked up” programming by getting a book that teaches ActionScript.

I can’t remember why I bought that book at 12 years old and why ActionScript, but learning about OOP before anything else was interesting.

As far as I remember, I didn’t continue with AS, but around 18 I started messing with PHP and never stopped building things since then.

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