Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming

Re:Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming by _mrc on Sunday October 30, 2011 @09:28PM (#3175992)

Depending on the goals of the learner, something with immediate visual feedback is nice. Logo/turtle graphics or Smalltalk would be good for this.

While you're not going to write my-first-blog in Logo, it's something my 5 year old can get her head around. And it's the thin edge of the lisp wedge :)

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Re:Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming by sedachv on Monday October 31, 2011 @05:54PM (#3179286)

Agreed. Warren Wilkinson had an idea for a simple Lisp wrapper to SDL for this purpose (http://formlis.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/teaching-children-pr...). But it needs to be something even simpler, "Logo easy." HTML5 Canvas is actually a good system for this IMO.

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Re:Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming by eropple on Monday October 31, 2011 @12:47AM (#3176403)

While you're not going to write my-first-blog in Logo

Sounds like it needs more extensions.

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