Why teach him BASIC?
"Someone should write a program to do this crap." — 11 yo, tiring of Basic's verbosity, proposes the IDE (I told him there are programs that do it, but the real solution is just to use a better language.)
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It's easy to get started with. We'll switch languages later.
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But of course !
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People complain about new languages coming up every day. They should try to imagine a world without this evolution in the coding world.
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Python next?
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Maybe Racket? IIRC, Arc was implemented in Racket/MzScheme. Lots of good educational support materials. https://racket-lang.org/
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I wonder how the world will be different if everyone’s first language was declarative rather than imperative
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I guess in a sense react is kind of doing that to a lot of people
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Took me longer to realize the same thing about Basic but glad to have finally caught up to your son ;)
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