On 4 Jan 2005 at 11:47, Dave Dyer wrote:
... That's bad, but the worst is that the only environment that supports javascript, your browser, is an absolute mess.
This isn't correct: JavaScript runs as a stadalone "Windows Scripting Host" language and when run from Windows [as opposed to run from your browser] has an object model that includes most of the system stuff [so you can browse the filesystem, run programs, etc]
The choice of curriculum is just as important as the choice of language. I would stay away from anything involving graphics, threads, processes, and I/O until the student has definitely got the concepts.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'graphics' but my memory, from MANY years ago, is that graphics is one of the BEST things to start new- programmers doing. It is fun, and you get immediate, clear feedback [try having fun or understanding if your code is correct writing a program to find primes or the digits of pi..:o)]. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--