[vox] ISO: Good programming language to teach an 8yr old

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:42:48AM -0800, dylan wrote:
> what about PHP?

A good choice, but also a bad choice -- it's easy to learn, but it
doesn't teach much about programming.

I'd second Python as a good language to learn; it's friendly, not too
anal-retentive about the syntax, and powerful enough for him to write
any number of things, including games.  It also teaches good procedural
programming practices, which are a fundamental building block of
programming -- sure, OO may be the in-thing now, but at a basic level,
all computers are still procecural.

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