On 29/01/2015 23:37, wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:48:48 UTC, Ferretygubbins wrote:

Boy1 (13) is interested in learning how to write code and so I
would like to set him up with a toolkit for his PC (Windows)
unfortunately my programming days are somewhat in the past and
restricted to MUMPS which was archaic even back then. Has anyone
any suggestions for a suitable platform? As ever the cheaper the
better.

JavaScript is free on any normal Web browser. It can, if one knows
how, read local files, but not write, so it is safe. Output can be
copied to clipboard to an editor to disc, or sent to printer. The
language is a bit like C.

I would would be wary of anyone learning JS as a "first" language since
its very sloppy concept of data types and conversions will not translate
well to many other languages.

(beyond having some syntactical resemblance to C, that is about the end
of the similarity IMHO)


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Cheers,

John.

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