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Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language

Posted by timothy on from the thus-speaks-khan dept.

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."

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  1. Since when is JavaScript an unorthodox choice? by jholyhead · · Score: 1, Troll

    Everywhere I've looked for the last year, people have been using JavaScript to teach programming. Codecademy anyone?

    I personally think it's a horrible choice. If you don't know enough about computers to install Python, you probably don't know enough about computers to learn how to code.

  2. Re:The reason seems obvious to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you're a happy underpaid, overworked little programmer, aren't you?