Programming language for children

[Knapp]

C is a really hard language for a beginner. It has memory problems
like heap, it has pointers, pointers to pointers, it has code that is
hard to read, it is compiled.

Kids like things they can see. I like the robot idea because the kids
can see what happens if I do this . . . I learned with the C64 basic
and then assembly also. What made this great was that it was all
visual. Move a sprite, draw a line (I wrote the line command in
assembly), play a sound. You can't do this with C, without some work,
a graphics lib and a lot of compile time. Python is a really good
basic language. C is a really good pro language, C++ is at least a bit
easier than C; with memory and it is OOP.

Kids will spend 1000s of hours learning, IF THEY LIKE IT.
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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