Re: Lua, Robotics, and a 13 year old...

[Tom <tom.wieland@...>]

I began making websites with frames when I was 11, discovered CSS and
PHP at 12 and was spinning Linux at 14. I am 23 now. Never let age get
in your way; Sometimes you might feel a little helpless because you
are just not getting a concept (I had a hard time learning to make an
OO system in practice - what goes where and how stuff interacts, I
understood the theory) but that only made me want to know it even
more.

Now, I'm not a fantastic super coder but I managed to turn my hobby
into my job and I still program for fun as well and I'm pretty happy
with that.

gr,

Tom

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Matthew Wild wrote:
>>Everett L Williams II wrote:
>>>
>>> Start him on Logo. It is not a children's language any more, and it was
>>> specifically designed for simple robotics, certainly in the virtual
>>> mode, but also in the real. I would not start my worst enemy on a
>>> functional language like lua, however much I may like it myself.
>
> Logo is also a functional language, albeit old fashioned. (It's quite
> similar to traditional lisp in its distinction between variables and
> procedures and its dynamic scope.)
>
>> Sure, Logo gives a nice introduction to the *concept* of programming,
>> and it's fun to see children realising that yes - they can actually be
>> in control of the computer/robot, and it's not hard. But someone
>> wanting to actually take up programming is long past that point
>> already.
>
> Logo is a serious programming language. Don't be prejudiced by the way it
> has been targeted.
>
> Tony.
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