MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem

Re:MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem by SOLAR_FIELDS on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:51PM (#33556781)

Getting kids involved in software in general is still a massive challenge. I would rather have a world where 1 in 100 kids knows how to write mediocre Python and 1 and 10,000 kids knows how to write good C than 1 in 1000 of both.

C is a simple language in theory. But memory management is not something that I would consider approachable to most children.

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Re:MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem by anakaine on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:22PM (#33576655)

This is the best approach in my mind too. Getting kids in through the front door is very difficult. It takes a very particular mindset to believe the best place to start kids programming today would be to start with C.

The same arguments used to be made about learning BASIC first and how it would ruin future programmers.

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