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

[Ken Herron]

--On Friday, March 19, 2004 10:19:19 -0800 Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net> 
wrote:

> Today, I've been asked to tutor a very smart (but currently far
> too Windows-saavy for his and his parents' own good) 8 year old kid.

Java is another possibility. The language itself is pretty clean (though 
it virtually forces you to learn OO concepts) and java code is generally 
easy to read. High-quality documentation and tutorials are available from 
sun, and there are good IDEs like eclipse that make it simple to write 
code that works correctly the first time.

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Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft." - Homer Simpson

Kenneth Herron        Kherron@newsguy.com       916-366-7338