My kids showed more interest in BASIC GOTO 10 on an emulator than school Scratch.
I think it is a decent programming paradigm but really just teach 6502 binary code entered by flipping switches and blinking lights and let only the children who love it go on to learn programming and computer science.
A while back, I powered up an Atari 800, and she was fascinated.
10 Input "What's your name?", N$
20 Print "Hi, ";N$
She was asking questions, trying out things. Something about that simple, imperative, dynamic type of language connects in ways that most conceptually purer and more powerful languages just do not. Python was close, but then it swerved.
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My kids showed more interest in BASIC GOTO 10 on an emulator than school Scratch.
I think it is a decent programming paradigm but really just teach 6502 binary code entered by flipping switches and blinking lights and let only the children who love it go on to learn programming and computer science.
Mine too!
A while back, I powered up an Atari 800, and she was fascinated.
She was asking questions, trying out things. Something about that simple, imperative, dynamic type of language connects in ways that most conceptually purer and more powerful languages just do not. Python was close, but then it swerved.