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A comment on Ask HN: First programming language for teaching programming to children?.
Here's just one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663784
With things like Scratch, Alice and Logo, are you really contemplating teaching a young child Scheme? Or Smalltalk?
Most children I've met can't balance parentheses correctly, the syntax requirements are horrendous.
There must be a better way.
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Here's just one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663784
With things like Scratch, Alice and Logo, are you really contemplating teaching a young child Scheme? Or Smalltalk?
Most children I've met can't balance parentheses correctly, the syntax requirements are horrendous.
There must be a better way.