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I think you are grossly underestimating young people. Learning || to mean OR or String to mean "a series of characters" is by no means beyond the capability of
by Cookingboy 10y ago
I think you are grossly underestimating young people. Learning || to mean OR or String to mean "a series of characters" is by no means beyond the capability of kids.
- kibwen 10y agoI explicitly said in my comment that I am confident that kids are capable of learning these concepts. You seem to be asserting that an abundance of jargon, unfamiliar symbols, and unintuitive names are no obstacle to people learning to program, but sit a first-timer down with Befunge or Malebolge and we'll see how far they get. :) User interface matters, and it especially matters to people who have not yet internalized all the latent, lingering idiosyncrasies of programming in general.