Re:Ask HN: What gift to teach a 7 year-old programming?
by lylejohnson on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @05:17PM
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Yes, but...
When you turned on your ZX (if I recall correctly) it popped up in a BASIC interpreter. As did the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, TRS-80 CoCo, ... and you get the idea.
My nephew does not yet have his own computer, but if he did, it would boot up into Windows/Mac/Linux. So then I suppose the question is what sort of "encapsulated" (?) programming environment we could install for him to work with. Maybe Hackety Hack would be an appropriate choice in this circumstance.
When you turned on your ZX (if I recall correctly) it popped up in a BASIC interpreter. As did the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, TRS-80 CoCo, ... and you get the idea.
My nephew does not yet have his own computer, but if he did, it would boot up into Windows/Mac/Linux. So then I suppose the question is what sort of "encapsulated" (?) programming environment we could install for him to work with. Maybe Hackety Hack would be an appropriate choice in this circumstance.