Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/08/14:02:05
From: | "John S. Fine" <johnfine AT erols DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Teaching a child to program in C
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Date: | Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:44:33 -0400
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Reply-To: | johnfine AT erols DOT com
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I have a very bright 7 year old who wants to learn to
program. I program mainly in assembler and occasionally
in C. I know there are better first programming laguages
than C, but I would rather teach him a language that I
am comfortable in myself (and assembler is clearly a
worse choice).
The only compiler I have at home is DJGPP.
Can anyone give me any ideas for programming projects
that would be simple enough for a 7 year old to follow,
but interesting enough for a 7 year old to care about?
I expect that graphics would be a good way to make it
interesting. I have never done any graphics in DJGPP
(only in real mode assembler). Also, the computer I
would rather use has a fixed frequency monitor (It
supports many text modes, but only 1024x768 graphics
modes, not 640x480 or mode-x or any of the easy to
program modes). Have you got any hints for making
child level graphics programming simpler (for me as
well as him)?
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