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| DATE | 2002-02-27 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Fwd: Re: teach a 9 year old to program... [edw@q5comm.com]
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On 2002.02.27 11:47 Ed Weinberg wrote:
Tell me about your education subcommittee.
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:23, Ruben I Safir wrote:
>
> Hey Ed
>
> Everyone under the sun is now pushing their stupidity on you. It's getting ridecules.
>
> Java is complete shit, it is complex, and will get your kid nowhere. C is not even to be
> considered. Only an idiot would take a 5 year old and start to teach compiler theory,
> data types and pointers under C to a 9 year old.
>
> Python is white space sensitive and fustrates kids.
>
> USE PERL.
>
>
> How do I know - gee whiz, maybe because I have kids and they use computers...
>
>
>
> You asked the wrong list this question anyway. We are actually working on
> Children and Computer education in our education subcoommittee.
>
> Ruben
>
>
> On 2002.02.27 00:15 Ruben I Safir wrote:
> >
> > I started out with Perl
> >
> > That's my daughter on the NYLXS front page :)
> >
> >
> > Ruben
> >
> >
> > On 2002.02.27 00:12 Ed Weinberg wrote:
> > > My 9 year old wants to learn how to program. What should I start with?
> > > I have programed it a dozen languages over my lifetime (lately bash and
> > > perl), so a new one should not be a problem.
> > >
> > > He was not thrilled with a bash script which prints "hello world" on a
> > > character interface.
> > >
> > > So here is the question:
> > > What is the first language you would teach a 9 year old?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ed Weinberg
> > > edw-at-q5comm.com
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> > >
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> > >
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> http://www.nyfairuse.org - The foundation of Democracy
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Ed Weinberg
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www.q5comm.com/~edw
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http://www.nyfairuse.org - The foundation of Democracy
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/mp3/sins.mp3 - C'est La Vie and a boy named Joe
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