teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC

No argument from me. I've coded assembler for most of my life. This young guy just didn't get it. I couldn't even get him to understand the examples of things Java couldn't do on the platform we were talking about. My coworker turned to him and said "you do realize Java eventually gets translated to assembler in order for it to actually do anything, don't you?" Even that didn't work! "We give up." -----Original Message----- From: Dave Caroline <dave.thearchivist at gmail.com> Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:12:25 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts<cctalk at classiccmp.org> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Vintage Coder <vintagecoder at aol.com> wrote: For fun show him the book title Object oriented assembly language L. Dirfman Windcrest 1990 and define powerful :) you can do anything in assembler that the processor allows ask him if he can write a hardware driver in a couple of k memory on a 6502 in Java. Dave Caroline