On 11 Aug 2004, at 10:21 pm, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Brin wrote:
My biggest example is the silent, unnoticed vanishing of any programming language from personal computers.
I swear, I CANNOT GET A MACHINE WITH SIMPLE BASIC IN ORDER TO TEACH IT TO MY SON!
Format & Reinstall.
My computer runs Linux _most_ of the time, except when my kids are playing some stupid games. All three of them use Linux whenever they want to do something serious [*], and Linux comes with all programming languages that you wish.
As does Mac OS X. Quite a few 'out of the box' - Applescript, C, Objective C, C++, Objective C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Unix Shell scripting...and Lisp, Tcl and all those kind of things are a free download away. But I don't think any of those languages are really suitable for teaching a young beginner.
There are free LOGO and Smalltalk implementations on most platforms, and they might make a good starting language.
REALbasic is a nice commercial environment with an educational version.
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