Perl has at least one advantage over other languages -- it is easy to see variables, because they start with a dollar sign (or other sigil). In my brief experience teaching programming to children this has proven to be helpful, because getting the difference between a variable and a string is important.
Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steve Tolkin Steve . Tolkin at FMR dot COM 508-787-9006 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. M3L Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kate Wood Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:30 AM To: Boston Perl Mongers Subject: [Boston.pm] teaching kids Perl Hi all, So... say you were going to teach a child (or several children) of about ten, reasonable technical aptitude, to program using Perl. How would you go about it? I'm doing some lessons for my daughter and her friends for the spring,and need some further input.They're not quite of an age where handing them the camel book and saying "go for it" is realistic, but they're pretty self-motivated. Kate _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
