Re: Programming languages for the very young

From: m-coughlin (m-coughlin_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:14:29 GMT

"Mark A. Washburn" wrote:
>
> Prefix, infix or postfix ... Prefix, infix or postfix ...
>
> Feuer <feuer@his.com> wrote in message news:
> <40160648.97B3E5B1@his.com>...
> > 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.

     I remember learning arithmetic as a child. We started out
having to memorize 1 + 1= 2 all the way up to 12 + 12 = 24.
Then to work with bigger numbers, we changed things around
    1
  + 1
   __
     2

    12
  + 12
   ___
     24

and we wrote the + last. Didn't give me much trouble then, not
after memorizing the whole addition and multiplication tables.
So I don't know why there is so much anguish about infix and
postfix notation with programming languages. Must be due to the
brain changing with maturity. 

--
Michael Coughlin   m-coughlin@comcast.net   Cambridge, MA USA

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Bridge Replacement?
    ... mark wrote: ... I'm looking for a cheap archtop to tide me over at least while my Tele ... I've wanted to try one of these Washburn J3's because they are so cheap, ... playing, if the holes line up I dont see why you cant swap it, the high ...
    (rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz)
  • Re: Just Finished, Now reading, Next up
    ... I'm at the 3/4 mark - the smile is gone and the lump is much bigger. ...
    (rec.arts.mystery)
  • Re: Advanced notice: Another 24 hours of Delphi
    ... At 01:44:16, 13.10.2005, John Kaster (Borland) wrote: ... > Mark your calendars now so you don't miss it. ... but bigger and better than before! ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: Advanced notice: Another 24 hours of Delphi
    ... > Mark your calendars now so you don't miss it. ... but bigger and better than before! ... Prev by Date: ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Quantifier...bigger than 32766...in regex
    ... Quantifier in bigger than 32766 before HERE mark in regex m/^.{ ... It appears from the archives of this gruop that this is unavoidable - ...
    (comp.lang.perl.misc)