From:	Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject:	Re: Teaching a child to program in C
Date:	Tue, 08 Sep 1998 19:55:08 -0300
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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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