They tried to start up the interactive Java REPL, so that the languages
might be compared, but found that Java didn't have a REPL! Java was already
decided to be too difficult for their junior colleagues at that time, but
they pressed on regardless.
Then they tried to rewrite this:
repeat(4) {
forward(10)
right()
}
but got confused because repeat isn't a Java keyword, and because it offers
no way to define repeat() so it can be used like that, so they had to write
it like this after being given a hint about for-loops (and after someone had
told them that every line needs a semicolon at the end):
for(int i=1; i++; i <4);
{;
forward(10);
right();
};
after a bit of trial and error, they finally got it right, but were
seriously becoming frustrated at this point:
for(int i=0; i < 4; ++i) {
forward(10);
right();
}
but found it difficult to understand why i must start at 0, and why it was
even needed!
and didn't know if it worked anyway, because there was another error in the
source file, and no REPL...
The experiment was rightly abandoned at this point, it being deemed that
pushing the poor kids any further would probably class as emotional abuse.
2010/8/28 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 2010/8/27 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Myself, and the rest of the Scala evangelists on this list are going
>>>> to great pains to point out that: no, actually, Scala is for everyone.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Of course you realize that for the claim "Scala is for everyone" to be
>>> true, everybody needs to say so. And so far, only Scala evangelists do...
>>>
>>
>> How do you feel about this statement, in light of the learning tool Kojo
>> and grade schoolers using it to learn programming?
>>
>
> Well, let's ask them: how do these grade schoolers feel about Scala
> compared to Java?
>
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