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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. Python vs. BASIC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I learned to program pretty much with Applesoft BASIC and a Franklin Ace 1000 manual

    Now I'm teaching my mom (!) to program in Python using the Hello World book.

    Honestly, I wish Python were around when I was learning. Trying to squeeze a new instruction between line 11 and line 12 kinda sucked sometimes. (Then again, I wish a lot of things were around...)