Coming from a students point of view I have this to say:
Id suggest teaching the students something simple to start off with, that
gives them enough room to go off and 'play' with in their own time.
Myself personally, I learnt basic programming (ie, a program made screens
appear) wit Visual Basic. I think this is a great tool to understand the
very basics of code flow, with ifthens, etc..
At the university *hides* i attend, we are taught c++ in beginner
programming classes. I think this is a great idea rather than giving us a
sandbox of 'blue' we are giving a playground of C++ in which we can take the
very basic stuff we know and make very powerful applications on almost any
operating system. But it also allows us to understand programming principles
and object orientation (and spelling hehe.)
Subtitles:
visual basic (very briefly), followed by c++.
what id like to see is a question from someone on how to teach people how to
become hax0rs. :)
its almost the same track, the mentality behind being a programmer is very
much the same, it takes time and its differnet for everybody.
I spent my last 2c @ mackas, so its just what i thought.
/avant.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
