On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 09:28 -0600, aditya siram wrote:
Ye gods! A B & D [1] language for kids?
I do share those concerns. Like I said in the original post, my initial reaction was to push for something like Python. But the kids are very clear; if I'm at all willing, they want to learn Haskell! And honestly, I'd like to try it too, *if* I can do my due diligence research, and pay attention to others who might have tried and learned some lessons along the way!
At least give them a fighting chance [2] at becoming future developers. [2] http://scratch.mit.edu/
Thanks for that suggestion; unfortunately, much like the WizBang suggestion, Scratch is going to come across as if, for some reason, after happily using GHCi for math, I now don't trust them with a real programming language. I can guarantee you they won't be interested in programming by dragging around brightly colored things that look like puzzle pieces on the screen; and I can't imagine keeping it up for the whole year even if they were interested. -- Chris