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lproven @ lproven @awful.systems
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We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • I don’t care about websites.

    Agree, in spades.

    Writing a program in C that finds a shortest path in a graph and dumps it to the terminal?

    Disagree, although I am not immune.

    Graphics. That, for me, is key. Drawing pretty pictures (procedural stuff, like Logo; fonts; and teenage me's particular crack, fractals) was where it was at.

    Fuck C and everything it spawned. Give me a Pascal-family thing that doesn't have so much fucking syntactically significant punctuation marks FFS. WORDS, mthrfckr, words not code-breaking types of bloody parentheses.

    • We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

    I approve of this sort of thing.

    • We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • I hadn't seen this post of yours before. I like it. I like it a lot.

    My $SPROG can't really read very well yet but she can open a saved program in Scratch and run it and show off the results, in SUGAR. I was so proud.