Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/09/16:15:24
From: | Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: Teaching a child to program in C
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Date: | Tue, 08 Sep 1998 19:55:08 -0300
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Organization: | NBTel Internet
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Message-ID: | <35F5B5CC.70FCD2CC@unb.ca>
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References: | <000e01bddb65$42044d80$dc4d08c3 AT arthur>
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Arthur wrote:
> > The best programming language for a child (or other beginner)
> > is SQL. Tell the child that they can make each of the monsters,
> > events, weapons, treasures, magic spells, and walls in their
> > favorite computer game into database tables, and you will
> > write a program to animate that database into a game.
> That's analogous to getting the child to design lego bricks and then their
> dad makes a model with them.
> SQL? Can you do anything in SQuirreL except program databases? It's one of
> the most powerful, and hence complex, languages available - I can't get the
> version that's built into (is?) Access to do anything at all. And that's me
> with eight years of programming knowledge of BASIC, C, C++ and ASM.
I agree with your first paragraph, but SQL is not complex. I taught myself
it (with a book) in about 10 minutes. It has less keywords than C, and the
structure of the language is simpler than C.
Select * from MyBase a, YourBase b where a.Name="Fred" and a.Age>b.Age
What is so difficult about that?
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