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How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program?

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    Last Updated: December 27, 2009

    thelordx writes “I’ve got a much younger brother who I’d like to teach how to program. When I was younger, you’d often start off with something like BASIC or Apple BASIC, maybe move on to Pascal, and eventually get to C and Java. Is something like Pascal still a dominant teaching language? I’d love to get low-level with him, and I firmly believe that C is the best language to eventually learn, but I’m not sure how to get him there. Can anyone recommend a language I can start to teach him that is simple enough to learn quickly, but powerful enough to do interesting things and lead him down a path towards C/C++?”

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