From:	amagdub AT fix DOT net (Ahmed Magdub)
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Subject:	Re: Teaching a child to program in C
Date:	Wed, 09 Sep 1998 20:41:05 GMT
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On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:44:33 -0400, "John S. Fine"
<johnfine AT erols DOT com> wrote:

Ok here's my two cents.  

Try Smalltalk; there's  a lot of good, free environments out there
that you can try.  You can create the class's for your child to work
with, to give him the feel for programming.  Then later show him how
to create his own.


>I have a very bright 7 year old who wants to learn to
>program.  I program mainly in assembler and occasionally
>in C.  I know there are better first programming laguages
>than C, but I would rather teach him a language that I
>am comfortable in myself (and assembler is clearly a
>worse choice).
>
>  The only compiler I have at home is DJGPP.
>
>  Can anyone give me any ideas for programming projects
>that would be simple enough for a 7 year old to follow,
>but interesting enough for a 7 year old to care about?
>
>  I expect that graphics would be a good way to make it
>interesting.  I have never done any graphics in DJGPP
>(only in real mode assembler).  Also, the computer I
>would rather use has a fixed frequency monitor (It
>supports many text modes, but only 1024x768 graphics
>modes, not 640x480 or mode-x or any of the easy to
>program modes).  Have you got any hints for making
>child level graphics programming simpler (for me as
>well as him)?

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