Reply-To: "James Arthur" <james AT arfa DOT clara DOT net>
From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Teaching a child to program in C
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:14:18 +0100
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> 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