Teach your kids programming with Small Basic
May 26th, 2009
Small Basic is a project that’s aimed at bringing “fun” back to programming. By providing a small and easy to learn programming language in a friendly and inviting development environment, Small Basic makes programming a breeze. Ideal for kids and adults alike, Small Basic helps beginners take the first step into the wonderful world of programming.
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Its very easy to write cool programs using Small Basic. Try out following lines of code.
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Source : SO
You can download Small Basic here. Small Basic blog has lot of examples to help your kids explore Small Basic.
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Even though this sounds like a good idea for kids. I started programming when I was around 10 to 11 years old. My frist language that I got started in was actually HTML and then I moved up from there…
HTML>CSS>Batch>Javascript>C#>Asp.net
I believe that if we introduce our kids into programming with a language that can’t truly do much of what we/anyone would need in the real word like database management and stuff, then they will get use to programming for a useless cause. And when they get older they will not be able to take in that they have to actually work hard for what they want.
No offense but I live in America and damn… they are a lot of fat people and kids here. They all are always poor for some reason to. You see our youth of today do not understand what it means to actually do work. I mean there are always the few exceptions but still.
@Taylor I agree completely. I started with BASIC and it was super cool to write our own programs and show off. Languages like BASIC are rarely taught in schools now. But everyone has to start somewhere. I feel Small Basic will be a good beginning and show them the beauty of programming. It will be a good start for children and make them start loving programming.