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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 04:29 AM

    I hope you realized you started a religious war!

    We programmers spend half our days discussing which programming language is the best screwdriver for our jobs. I bet there'll be 500 posts on this topic by the end of the day.

    Heck, download Visual C# for your boy, then put a SQL Server or an Oracle instance on your PC, he'll be pulling down 80K out of high school.

    —LeftWingPharisee Read LeftWingPharisee's other letters

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