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3 thoughts: 1. Didn't he had already a personal website? 2. Why is he teaching Basic over Scratch? 3. Will it scale to Kubernetes one day?
by mister_hn 7y ago
3 thoughts:
1. Didn't he had already a personal website?
2. Why is he teaching Basic over Scratch?
3. Will it scale to Kubernetes one day?
- mdonahoe 7y agomy random guesses 1. Someone else made this site in order to centralize all of Paul's relevant parenting content in one place. 2. PG prefers the text-only purity of Basic. 3. Who cares.
- markdown 7y ago2. Why is he teaching Basic over Scratch? Scratch is too mainstream for Graham.
- DanBC 7y agoFor 2, I'm guessing that BASIC is a step away from a visual drag-and-drop language towards something that you type in, and it's a stepping stone towards something like Python and other languages.
- tlarkworthy 7y agoMy teaching path for youngens:- 1. electrical circuits (switch, button, battery), no reading necessary, and purely physical. 2. gcompris (computer skills + you can simulate circuits so it connects to 1.) 3. Scratch 4. something textual (e.g. Basic but maybe Python or JS)
- benhoyt 7y ago2. The real question is why Graham is teaching BASIC instead of Lisp.