Re: [seul-edu] Language to teach 10 year olds

["Erol YILDIZ" <erol@kemerkoy.k12.tr>]

hi

Heh, no comments to the below, could't take them serious, should I? =)
("PHP will be obsolete in 10 years" is registered trademark of its
respectful writer) =))

byes..
----- Original Message -----
From: Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <algaba@gmx.net>
To: Michael Hall <admin@mulga.com.au>
Cc: <seul-edu@seul.org>; <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Language to teach 10 year olds


> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Michael Hall wrote:
>
> > G'day:
> >
> > I'm going to throw in my two cents now ...
> >
> > Why not teach kids something that is
> > 1. easy
> > 2. useful
> > 3. involves most basic programming concepts and constructs
> > 4. immediate, relevant, interesting
> > 5. free, open source, platform independent
> >
> > ... in other words, PHP (in conjunction with HTML)?
>
> I don't know how PHP is.... But, PHP+HTML doesn't sound
> either practical or educative.
> Because the existence of HTML wysiwig editors and because
> nobody designed PHP and HTML with educative characteristics.
> Specially HTML is an ugly language to deal with,...
>
> Please, don't suggest Javascript, because it'd be much **worse**.
> And "PHP will be obsolete in 10 years" (Trademarked sentence).
>
> And please don't suggest Fortran, Fortran won't be obsolete in
> 50 years, but it's as educative as a watermellon in the middle
> of the road.
>
> ---
> Regards/Saludos
> Manolo
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>