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> And then came JavaScript. Well, along came real computer programming. It could have been Python or some other language, I think, but the transition to writing
by karmakaze 3y ago
> And then came JavaScript. Well, along came real computer programming. It could have been Python or some other language, I think, but the transition to writing programs, even short bits of code, took the wind out of the students' excitement.
The big change here is the procedural (time/execution steps, mutable variables) nature of these languages. Functional programming can be taught from a declarative perspective which is more along the lines of HTML/CSS.