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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. "How can we teach kids how to program?" by underqualified · · Score: 5, Interesting

    the correct question would be...

    how do we get our kids interested in learning how to program?

    and the answer to that would be...

    tell them they're not allowed to do it.