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Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language
jfruh writes "Slashdotters (many of whom cut their teeth on much-maligned BASIC) have long debated what language kids should learn programming in. Khan Academy, the wildly popular producer of educational videos, has come up with an unorthodox choice: JavaScript, not least because of its ability to keep kids' attention with something fun and graphical."
No additional tools needed. Everyone watching a Khan video already has a JS environment.
The video the article uses as its source is from October.
The article also incorrectly states that this is Khan Academy's first programing language. There are a few intro to Python videos on the site already.
I'm sorry, but as someone who's written way more JS than anyone should ever have to I'd like to politely ask you to shut the fuck up and stop trolling me. You could have at least brought up what points you think I'm wrong on - but I can point out solutions that were created specifically to combat each of the issues I pointed out. Hell the basic jQuery code alone deals with all of these issues AND jQuery itself was created so you could code vanilla JS without having to waste time dealing with most of them.
Oh, and I would really recommend CoffeeScript. See how wrong you think I am after coding CoffeeScript with jQuery for a week. Don't forget to use the node.js watched compile freature - you'll get vaidation each time you save. It's fantastic.