Two principles I've been teaching my 11 yo about programming: 1. Whenever you change a program, test it. 2. Adjust the size of your changes based on your confidence. Start with small changes. When those work, you can make bigger ones.
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What went into making that decision?
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I'm not Paul, but I think BASIC is a great choice: 1. Extremely minimal syntax. 2. Command-based promotes algorithmic thinking (breaking the solution into tiny, trivial steps) rather than 'magic thinking' (i.e. finding some magic incantation). 3. It helps to build intuition
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