On the making of a girl nerd

Re:On the making of a girl nerd by navs on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:28AM (#3836582)

I'm only 24 and I was learning BASIC in High School, back in Fiji.

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Re:On the making of a girl nerd by rollypolly on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:51AM (#3836692)

I think BASIC, Python, and other simple languages are much better than C, C++, Java. Those latter languages are like teaching someone to swim by pushing them off the deep end.

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Re:On the making of a girl nerd by tlear on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:59AM (#3836719)

I think BASIC is probably a better language to learn first then Java. In a perfect world I think kids would be taught Lua, Python or Ruby. Now that I think about it even Javascript would be much better to teach then Java

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Re:On the making of a girl nerd by admg on Friday April 13, 2012 @10:14AM (#3836786)

I'm 25 and was using comal in high school, seems to have been a particularly rare language.

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