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Ask HN: How is teaching Visual Basic limiting?
English teenagers are taught Visual Basic disguised as general event-driven programming. This limits their view of what event-driven programming is. But, how much? Is it really an issue?
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/BTEC%20Nationals%20from%202010/Unit-14-Event-Driven-Programming.pdf
- pitchups 15y agoVisual Basic is an easy and fun introduction to programming and there is nothing limiting about it.
- wkearney99 15y agoAnd it also likely introduces them to using much more robust editing tools that just a text editor. You can learn programming badly in any language or environment. So it depends far more on the curriculum and the teacher than the environment itself.