Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms.

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-04-25 8:30 GMT+02:00 Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org>:
>> Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> BASIC had just a few keywords and automatically numbered your lines.
>>> The system, such as it was, was integrated with it,  And it had graphics.
>>> MOVE 10, TURN 30, PEN DOWN, MOVE 20. It gave a wow factor.
>>
>> I think you may be conflating BASIC and LOGO with one another.
>
> Oops! You're right, of course. Never trust the memory of a septuagenarian.
>

LOGO _is_ a fantastic beginner's language, for the reasons you
describe and more. It's a functional language, so while it's
dynamically typed it does encourage the kinds of structures that are
worth learning early on.

/s/ Adam