On (15/05/01 10:56), Ben Armstrong wrote: > 1. BASIC is not a good beginner's language. > > 2. As much as we would have liked to include it, I think our own bias > towards BASIC is that we started with that language. Let's set > nostalgia aside and think what is best for the children.
I started with BASIC when I was 6 years old. Seemed like an excellent beginners language to me at the time. Still does. It was very easy to produce something that made "sense" in English and that produced a definite result. IIRC, I more or less started by making a Choose Your Own Adventure book into a BASIC game. However, my experience of other languages is very very limited. I just thought an opinion might be useful to somebody... Ailbhe perennial lurker -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/
