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jrochkind1 on Oct 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: My New Strategy for Teaching Kids How to Code

i'm pretty sure this will work.

Weren't most of us old school nerds programming with 'real tools' when we were 9-13, after all?

Of course, the 'real tools' were a lot simpler then. But the motivation of actually building something real should not be underestimated.

pbhjpbhj on Oct 24, 2013 [–]

I'm not a proper programmer but I started on the BBC micro's BASIC with:

    10 PRINT 'I AM AWESOME '
    20 GOTO 10

What's the current equivalent to that?

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