ActionScript as a teaching language

[William Park]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:33:33PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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.

If you don't plan to introduce C later on, then Awk would be
meaningless.  Though, I'm not sure, because I learned C first.

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