We had the discussion a few times in the last years -- if Nim is really a good start for kids and other people with absolutely no knowledge about CS.
Nim is fine for bright kids, sure. But I hesitated generally to really recommend Nim for beginners, knowing that starting with the popular languages may be easier. On the other hand -- generally Nim would be a fine beginner languages, with fine teaching materials and always an experienced Nim dev sitting beside you. And when languages like C or Python are taught at school it seems to occur that that is sometimes done in a really bad and stupid fashion, and both of that languages are not perfect for teaching beginners. The Nim situation has indeed improved in the last years, Nim community has grown a bit, and the number of tutorials has grown a lot. Well, now there is one more. At least the first draft. Basically the result of maybe 10 days of work only. All was streamed directly from my head to the keyboard, so there may be some errors, due to the fine weather I have not done proofreading yet. But generally I am really satisfied with that start. Have no idea if I will work on it over the summer -- at least it is a start. [http://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html](http://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html)
