Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/08/17:50:10
> 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.
James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
ICQ#15054819
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