5 Apr
2020
5 Apr
'20
5:53 p.m.
> I still believe that the best FIRST exposure to
computer programming
> should be BASIC.? VERY FIRST program should have instant gratification,
> without having had to already learn underlying structures, variable
> types, how to run a compiler, etc.? After creating first program, and a
> few more, in a very short time, it would then be sensible to evaluate
> what kind of programming is most interesting, and switch to the most
> appropriate language.? Having already created a few token programs, it
> is then less onerous to learn compilers, data types, system overhead,
> "ENVIRONMENT DIVISION", etc.
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Toby Thain wrote:
Sounds like you've never heard of Lisp.
LISP is a reasonable alternative starter language.
I PREFER BASIC for beginners, because I have met a few that have
difficulty fully understanding parentheses, and BASIC is a trivial
transfer to FORTRAN and a few other languages in that group.