From: Derek Greene Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Teaching a child to program in C Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 02:44:29 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 38 Message-ID: <35F7754D.CA54EB96@mindspring.com> References: <000901bddc0c$a7dc68c0$894b08c3 AT arthur> Reply-To: colskywalker AT thepentagon DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kb5f0.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Arthur wrote: [SNIP!] > Besides, I said in another posting that you do cover basic LOGO > programming at school (well, in my school anyway). This does, of course, > have varying degrees of success but IMO it's not a particularly stimulating > language to learn. > Well myself, I am homeschooled, I've learned/lean with what I can afford (explains my interest in DJGPP :-), and when I started the internet was not in my realm of thought (that doesn't count my gramother's Prodigy account that i loved to toy with :-). So LOGO wasn't exactly something I could look around for a compiler for (I learned basic with the MS-DOS freebie Qbasic). Aside from that the public schools here have a joke for a "computer-science" (and i use this next term loosely) program. Their idea of teaching basic programming to 6th graders (I'm not kidding either) is telling them that BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Instructional Code...OK, now how do I use it? :-) > Hmm, that's who they appear to be written for, anyway. Hehehe, true but the explanations are nice, especially for the younger child. > > > Mr. Breton, your LOGO suggestion is a good idea, but don't denounce the > > possibility of a 7 year old learning C, and also spell BRIGHT as such and > > not brite, as it is incorrect. > > :^) Isn't it amazing how guys who are probably twice my age, can't spell simple words? :-) Derek Greene