Excerpts from david's message of 2010-10-15 09:21:34 +0200: > Philipp Ãberbacher wrote: > > > About half of my fellow students are total beginners who've never > > written or even read a single line of code. To them everything is new, > > and they need to filter the essentials from the distractions, so less > > distractions is a real help. > > Perhaps that's why BASIC stands for "Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic > Instruction Code"? > > From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC: > > The eight design principles of BASIC were: > 1. Be easy for beginners to use. > 2. Be a general-purpose programming language. > 3. Allow advanced features to be added for experts (while keeping the > language simple for beginners). > 4. Be interactive. > 5. Provide clear and friendly error messages. > 6. Respond quickly for small programs. > 7. Not to require an understanding of computer hardware. > 7. Shield the user from the operating system. Maybe. I've never written a single line of basic, but I guess many of todays programmers have. Pascal might be another language of this kind. I wonder whether it would be more sensible to start with a teaching language like that and switch to something more common a little bit later. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
