Hi all, here's my 2 euros (cough, cough, !!1 sorry - wash my mouth out) As this thread's started off talking about PHP, how's that for a starter. It'll create some interest with them straight away as the can create web sites which is cool with kids these days. Then move them to perl, which is (and I know Phil will disagree with me here) a proper programming language. In a lot of ways it's very similar to PHP so moving from one to the other should not vex them too much, but perl is a programming language in the true sense. Gary On Thursday 26 July 2001 11:47 am, Colin McQueen wrote:
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Phil Driscoll
wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2001 17:54, Colin McQueen wrote:
Yes well ... I'd love to have the time but my kids are expecting to see Dad this summer ;-)
Are they old enough to code :)
'fraid not though the two oldest have done quite a bit with the lego mindstorms stuff. They are 8 and 10. The closest they com to Linux is running a few of the games and they've used Star office if Dad has left the dual boot PC in SUSE. They have very little problem tranferring their skills between Windows/RISC OS/Linux
Maybe I should start them with something. What would you recommend? I'd go for BBC BASIC V simply because I use it a lot but I realise that's limiting them. I have trouble converting to C and Java probably because of my BASIC upbringing.
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