ActionScript as a teaching language

[Christopher Browne]

On 12/29/05, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> How about Python?  It has "OOP" stuff, but it can be taught as
> procedural to start.

Ruby would also be a pretty good choice, with the difference that it
is "inherently OOP."

> In fact, for Grade 11, even Awk is sufficient.  Awk syntax is like C, so
> you can teach C very easily afterwards.

Having associative arrays and regular expressions in the "base
language" would make C a pretty big step down from Awk.  In any case,
Awk is only marginally less "dead" than Latin; I don't think too many
Grade 11 classes will be using it.
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