From:	"John S. Fine" <johnfine AT erols DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Teaching a child to program in C
Date:	Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:44:33 -0400
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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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