Comments on: Towards an Educational Programming Language for Children http://angrymen.org/uncategorized/towards-an-educational-programming-language-for-children/ The Home of Michael Donald Buckley on the World Wide Web Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:09:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Markus Hitter http://angrymen.org/uncategorized/towards-an-educational-programming-language-for-children/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Markus Hitter Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:43:03 +0000 http://angrymen.org/?p=22#comment-121 You have tons of great ideas, Michael. However, I'm wondering wether you want to teach your computer to think like children or wether you want to teach your brother to think in measures of comuter programming. IMHO, only the latter is answering your brother's request. Writing primitive applications in plain C isn't that complex, even 10-year-olds can learn than in an hour or two. From there on he can grow, add objective thinking, graphics. Just give him an IDE with template apps and a working build&run button. The biggest hurdle is probably the disappointment when he recognizes a first person shooter with movie-like graphics isn't programmed within a day or two. Be prepared for it :-) You have tons of great ideas, Michael. However, I’m wondering wether you want to teach your computer to think like children or wether you want to teach your brother to think in measures of comuter programming. IMHO, only the latter is answering your brother’s request.

Writing primitive applications in plain C isn’t that complex, even 10-year-olds can learn than in an hour or two. From there on he can grow, add objective thinking, graphics. Just give him an IDE with template apps and a working build&run button.

The biggest hurdle is probably the disappointment when he recognizes a first person shooter with movie-like graphics isn’t programmed within a day or two. Be prepared for it :-)

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