[geeks] Introductory programming language?

[William Barnett-Lewis]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:39 AM,  <geeks-request at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> From: Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
> My sister has just expressed an interest in learning some programming.
> She's had some minimal exposure, but effectively is starting from zero.
> I apparently (I don't recall) taught her a tiny bit of FORTRAN back
> when I first learnt it myself (we're talking some 35 years ago) and she
> took one summer course in Visual Basic which she never touched again
> afterwards and says she doesn't remember anything from.  She is *not*
> stupid by any stretch.
(snip)
> Any thoughts?

Squeak Smalltalk or Lispworks Common Lisp come to mind. But really,
isn't this the classical case for Pascal?


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