Re: Programming languages for the very young

From: Feuer (feuer_at_his.com)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:33:44 -0500

Yoyoma_2 wrote:

> So my vote is something like LOGO for the very young (maby until like
> grade 3 or 4) then VB until 11th grade then dwell in c++ or java since
> they have the cognitive abilities to do the complex desings needed for
> those languages.

Ugh. Logo's OK, but VB? C++? Java? No. Some Schemish language
seems best for children K-12, with some branching out into assembly,
C, Postscript, and/or ML.

David