Re: Lua code learning path using annotated source by Steve Donovan

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 20/12/2011 9.25, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> > I work as a teacher now, and this school year I'm teaching basic C to
> > youngsters (age ~16). My current skills are more than enough to cope with
> > toy programs and exercises, but I'm taking the chance to improve my
> > knowledge of more advanced C programming techniques (but still
> > general-purpose), so any good corpus of code will do. Using Lua source for
> > the task has the added advantage of improving my knowledge of my favourite
> > language (which is not C ;-)
>
> Dunno about the syllabus and its goal, but I today I would teach
> javascript to youngsters, so they can put it immediatly to use and
> show with some intelligently enriched websides. When I had coding
> classes in the 90ies already felt like, guys why are we doing
> stdin/stdout console stuff when the contemporary show is window GUIs?
Well, the choice was not mine, since there are guidelines I have to 
follow. But the school I teach in is a technical school and the course 
extends for three years and those guidelines mandates C and Assembly 
programming. In perspective, these youngsters should be able in three 
years to program microcontrollers (and the like) and data acquisition 
hardware. I doubt that javascript is a viable alternative in this field :-)

I'd insert Lua in their roadmap, if it were my choice, but I'm a 
substitute teacher, so I cannot plan ahead for more than the current 
school year, so I must play it safe.