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Yeah, or they could not. HH is a great idea, but with a tutorial that most people it's targeted at can't follow. It's the kind of thing programmers love, "look
by mtogo 15y ago
Yeah, or they could not. HH is a great idea, but with a tutorial that most people it's targeted at can't follow.
It's the kind of thing programmers love, "look, it teaches people to code using my favorite language!", but doesn't actually do anything to teach kids to program.
If you want to teach someone to code, start them off with Scratch (or something similar), then pick a language to start with based on their intentions. If they want to learn gamedev, for example, give them C++.
Yes, I fully expect this to be downvoted to hell and back because of all the _why worshipping on HN. I'm fine with that.
- pygy_ 15y ago> HH is a great idea, but with a tutorial that most people it's targeted at can't follow. Do you have any real life experience about this?
- mtogo 15y agoYes. I recommended it to a few people squarely in it's target market and not a single one could understand HH, and not one even wanted to use it. The same people then learned various languages through different means and had no problems. To me that is pretty damning.