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It's too bad Javascript's faults are so grievous. The sane subset of JS + a web browser makes a pretty good beginners environment. But when you have to blow so
by cageface 15y ago
It's too bad Javascript's faults are so grievous. The sane subset of JS + a web browser makes a pretty good beginners environment.
But when you have to blow so much time on screwy things like "this" scoping and unwanted implicit conversions it kind of tips the balance.
- jerf 15y agoYou can always do something like this: http://www.skulpt.org/ http://www.skulpt.org/ None of the disadvantages of such an approach matter in a learning context. Sure, it's slow relative to a real implementation... but so what? (I'm also not saying that particular link is a drop-in solution, as I've never heard of it until I went googling on the theory that something like it must exist. But if you were building a business on this, it looks far enough along that you could adapt it as needed.)