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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:39:51
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: John Meyer <john_meyer AT geocities DOT com>
Subject: Re: Teaching a child to program in C
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At 01:44 PM 9/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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?
>


Okay, first off, I would definitely start out in BASIC for a while.  I
don't care how bright the child is, even I needed BASIC when I started to
program. BASIC will start the child out in the right direction.

Secondly, I'd go to http://bloodshed-software.home.ml.org and download
Dev-C.  Dev C is a much simpler, easier to understand IDE.