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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python (spectrum.ieee.org)
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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python::The students also learn how to design board games and video games

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Especially for beginners its a bad language. You have the understand artificial concepts about classes, objects, abstract states before you re able to learn the important stuff like if/else, looping etc pp.

I would always give beginners a language which is at least in their way as possible.

[โ€“] Pipoca 1 points 1 year ago

You don't really have to.

You can just handwave public static void main, and only deal with primitives, then static functions, before introducing objects.

That's what they did at my high school. It's weird, and there's much better ways and languages to introduce procedural programming, but it's possible.