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Why Teach Programming With BASIC?

Posted by timothy on from the because-of-the-great-name dept.

chromatic writes "To answer the perennial question 'How can we teach kids how to program?', we created a web-based programming environment. As we began to write lessons and examples, we surprised ourselves. Modern languages may be powerful and useful for writing real programs, but BASIC and Logo are great languages for demonstrating the joy of programming."

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  1. Re:BASIC by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 print "hello"
    20 goto 10

    This is why we can't have nice things.

    --
    John
  2. Web-based programming environment... by windcask · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Here, son, let's look at this Wordpress site that hasn't been updated in 18 months. Now, this is called 'SQL Injection' and 'Cross-site Scripting.'"

    Nothing better than learning by example...