Hi Clive
On 15/09/12 13:22, [email protected] wrote:
Hi All
My 12 year old grandson has asked 'Which is the best Programming
Language to learn?' - over to you all!!
From personal experience (albeit many years ago now), the higher the
level of language, the duller learning it becomes, so my suggestion is
assembly language on any of the dirt-cheap 8-bit dev kits/evaluation
kits available. If you go for one of the Freescale MC9S08 kits, it comes
with an Eclipse-based development environment that runs under Linux.
There's loads of others (the MC9S08 is based on the venerable 1970's
6800, with an entirely traditional architecture which is why I'd suggest
that).
These dev kits pretty much all come with switches, LED's and a buzzer -
writing assembler to produce sounds, light LED's etc is great fun.
They all come with C compilers too. Once the lad understands the basics,
and how simple it all really is, he will be able to learn the basics of
C in a few days.
I haven't mentioned Raspberry Pi because I think the processor is way
too complex for anyone to cut their teeth on this.
Cheers
Tim
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