Re: [Boston.pm] teaching kids Perl

Perl has at least one advantage over other languages -- it is easy to see 
variables, because they start with a dollar sign (or other sigil).  In my brief 
experience teaching programming to children this has proven to be helpful, 
because getting the difference between a variable and a string is important.

Hopefully helpfully yours, 
Steve 
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Subject: [Boston.pm] teaching kids Perl

Hi all,
So... say you were going to teach a child (or several children) of
about ten, reasonable technical aptitude, to program using Perl. How
would you go about it? I'm doing some lessons for my daughter and her
friends for the spring,and need some further input.They're not quite
of an age where handing them the camel book and saying "go for it" is
realistic, but they're pretty self-motivated.

Kate
 
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