{"id":133,"date":"2005-09-22T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1041"},"modified":"2005-09-22T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T14:41:40","slug":"getting-kids-into-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Getting kids into programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we want to get new blood into the programming market, we need start with kids when they are young.  <\/p>\n<p>If I had to suggest something, I'd recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\">Python<\/a>. It is easy to learn, object based, and the techniques you learn could easily be transferred to Java (or use <a href=\"http:\/\/jython.org\">Jython<\/a>) or C++.  <\/p>\n<p>But Python isn't for everybody.  So why not introduce them to programming with their very own programming language?  <\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/coding4fun\/coolapplications\/KPL\/default.aspx\">KPL<\/a>. It's a new language designed to give quick gratification to kid programmers. It's loosely based on BASIC (although parts of it felt more Modula-2 (a derivative of Pascal) to me...), but the theory remains sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we want to get new blood into the programming market, we need start with kids when they are young.  <\/p>\n<p>If I had to suggest something, I&#8217;d recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\">Python<\/a>. It is easy to learn, object based, and the techniques you learn could easily be transferred to Java (or use <a href=\"http:\/\/jython.org\">Jython<\/a>) or C++.  <\/p>\n<p>But Python isn&#8217;t for everybody.  So why not introduce them to programming with their very own programming language?  <\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/coding4fun\/coolapplications\/KPL\/default.aspx\">KPL<\/a>. It&#8217;s a new language designed to give quick gratification to kid programmers. It&#8217;s loosely based on BASIC (although parts of it felt more Modula-2 (a derivative of Pascal) to me&#8230;), but the theory remains sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}