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Programming For Terrified Adults?
makeitreal writes "My mom is getting bored with learning the basics of email and has mastered Solitaire. She asked me what I do on my computer and I told her that I was teaching myself programming in Scheme. She expressed an interest in learning what I was doing, but I tried to teach it to her with the HtDP and we didn't even get past the introductory chapter. Everything I've looked at so far seems too complicated (Scheme, Python, VB) or too childish (Logo, Squeak, Lego Mindstorms). Is there anything in the middle that is also cheap/free and suitable for adults? Or should I give up the whole idea?"
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Taco's diaper's full!
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Could we get some redundancy mods here! And after you've modded ALL (except the first) the "HTML is not programming" posts, THEN AND ONLY THEN please mod this off topic
Forget teaching her programming. Set her up with a Linux or BSD system. Let her get under the hood and muck with stuff.
Try letting her lose on Wiki software. Start on the basics such as triple quotes and wikitables, then work up on harder stuff such as Templates and Variables. There are hundreds of wiki's about, gov wild! The best wiki's around are the Wikimedia wiki's such as Wikipedia,Wikiquote and Wikibooks. You will have fun, plus you will learn stuff other than programming! Also check out the cool round tab trick, a reason for you IE users to upgrade to firefox already!
Interestingly, most of the developmentally challenged people I've ever met would probably have the balls not to post as AC, and they'd also be polite enough not to throw around the word "retard". Perhaps with the proper mnemonic devices you can overcome both your abject stupidity and your lack of cojones.
3000+ comments meta-modded. 0 mod points awarded.
Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
You sir are a breath of fresh air. The only reason that the term "developmentally challenged" is not P.I. is because the retards haven't figured out what it means yet. Words are only as offensive as you allow them to be.
Correction: In my last post I used the phrase "You sir are a breath of fresh air." when what I meant to write was: "Retards like you make life way harder than it needs to be... Fuck-face."
Especially if your mom's truly terrified -- she will make an excellent mark^H^H^H^Hvictim^H^H^H^H^H^Hstudent.
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Oh...wait, computer programming...how about Whitespace?
gmail? wow are they still drawing for lucky volunteers?