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Article #9059Re: Just Enough Pascal: good for kids?
From: Rich Siegel
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 16:03
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 16:03
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In article <4165@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0818a@prism.gatech.EDU (Paul E. Robichaux) writes: >I use (and love!) Lightspeed Pascal; I was wondering about their "Just Enough >Pascal" tutorial package. I don't know how appropriate it is for an 11-year-old, >and I don't know of any other tutorial packages like that available. > >If you use, and like, JEP, please let me know your evaluation of its age >range. If you know of any other general "intro to programming" tutorials >(ChipWits might do it, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.) response would >be very welcome. If you think that he's able to pick up Pascal, then JEP would probably be OK; It doesn't make any assumptions about the age of the user, and it doesn't get terribly complicated... R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "There is no personal problem which cannot be solved by sufficient application of high explosives." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!husc6!endor!siegel From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Just Enough Pascal: good for kids? Message-ID: <3364@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 7 Dec 89 16:03:35 GMT References: <4165@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) Organization: Symantec Language Products Group Lines: 31