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Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java)

Date	2012-05-06 11:38 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject	Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java)
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On 5/6/2012 8:06 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 05 May 2012 20:13:54 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/13/2012 10:08 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>>>
>>> The library is big, but with a small subset you can do the usual things
>>> that beginning programmers need to do.
>>
>> java.lang, java.io and java.util could bring one a good step forward.
>>
> java.lang and java.util are fine, but java.io has always struck me as
> needlessly quirky. Coming, as I did, from an assembler/C/Algol/COBOL
> background it was by far the most difficult part of Java to get my head
> round.

It is certainly very different from older languages.

But many newer languages seems to have taken similar routes.

Arne

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Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-05 20:13 -0400
  Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-05-06 12:06 +0000
    Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-06 11:38 -0400

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