Teaching some Newbies: Advice please...

From: Scoot (stad13_at_canada.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:42:07 GMT

Hi, I'm teaching some grade 8's and 9's introductory programming and
want to give Java a try (I've had some experience and its the only
programming lang I think I can install for free (school budget will
not allow me to purchase anything for a school group.)

Is there is smaller version of Java I can install that students can
compile and run in dos? (or should I load the full version of java on
all the computers?

Is there a easier programming language I can use? (I'm avoiding basic
since I think they should learn something a little more current)

thx (I mean if we had more computers to spare, we could reformat 2-3
with Unix/Linux etc and stick to C.

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