Dear PicoLisp programmers, I'll be introducing PicoLisp to two young exceptionally bright sibling children (Ojas, boy age 9 years and Oshin, girl age 11 years, who are in homeschool) who have no experience of computer science and programming.
PicoLisp being the most advanced computational framework and perfect model language suits best for this purpose. Migrating from one language to another becomes a tough job later in life. Such as children knowing Sanskrit/German as their first language will find them easy than people who learn them later in lives after already speaking English (or any other language for that matter). I'm very excited to begin this as it is a radical approach and is extremely challenging. I am considering what and how I should start. And at what stage should they be introduced to C and Assembly? I want them to get idea of PicoLisp as the language for handling all their day to day projects that they'll be needing to do in coming days, and later in life. I also plan to introduce PicoLisp in local communities and schools depending on my experience with them. You may be aware that proponents of other Lisps such as http://www.racket-lang.org are putting lot of effort with beginner level, easy to programme colorful pictures, animations and graphics to provide lively introduction to young students to introduce their language as first language early in their lives, even as a tool to learn elementary Math, Science and also to make beautiful presentations. Children will find it extremely attractive if they can create something out of PicoLisp, like diagrams, presentations, Math (using svg library to make geometric shapes, plot graphs etc). These are some of my ideas that I'll be trying to implement. Yet I'll also be needing help of other PicoLisp programmers in this regard. Active cooperation, reviews, feedback and suggestions are welcome. Best, Nehal
