Ask Slashdot: Best Strategies For Teaching Kids CS Skills With Basic?

beaverdownunder writes We're currently working on developing a teaching platform based around our BASIC interpreter DiscoRunner, and we would love to hear from Slashdot readers as to what methods they've used in the past to teach kids computer science concepts — which worked, what didn't, and why? This will obviously be invaluable to us when it comes to working out the lessons that will be taught in our fight-to-save-the-world-from-evil learning environment, and we would be eternally grateful for any scraps of wisdom you could toss our way.

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Please, DIAF

[BarbaraHudson]

By the time these kids grow up, "programming skills" will be obsolete, same as slide rules became obsolete a generation ago. Let the kids be kids, and concentrate on the basics. There are too many supposedly intelligent adults here on slashdot who still can't tell the difference between "brake" and "break", "rain", "reign", and "rein", etc.

For once, don't "think of the children." There are already too many people trying to make money for themselves by pushing the next generation into being low-paid code monkeys.