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Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Why Johnny can't code

BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.
By David Brin

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  • Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:40 AM

    BASIC < Smalltalk < Scheme

    In this day and age, why start your kid off with a langauge that will mangle his programming thought processes? There are much better options than BASIC available for free download, the best being Scheme (http://www.plt-scheme.org/). Smalltalk Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/) is also a good one to start with.

    —Byron

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