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Anyone else taught Karel++? In high school they taught us: Pascal -> Karel++ -> C++ Then the new AP tests came in and the switched to C++ -> Java, which seemed
by tolmasky 15y ago
Anyone else taught Karel++? In high school they taught us: Pascal -> Karel++ -> C++
Then the new AP tests came in and the switched to C++ -> Java, which seemed very silly to me (C++ as a first language???)
- showell30 15y agoMy intro CS class in college started with a week of Karel. It was incredibly fun for me, but I can't vouch for it as a first language, since I had already learned Basic and Pascal in high school. (Yep, I'm old). Karel variants are actually very challenging in a way--the syntax is dead simple, but its lack of constructs forces you to be fairly clever.