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Educational Programming
Introducing kids to programming with REALbasic
Issue: 6.6 (September/October 2008)
Author: Will Philips
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Starting Page Number: 13
RBD Number: 6608
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As I was sitting on our back porch working on a REALbasic project, my daughter wandered outside and asked what I was doing. I decided I couldn't explain to a seven-year-old why I was so interested in the client/server system I was developing. So I just said "I'm teaching the computer how to do something new."
You have to understand that this kid, like so many of her contemporaries, is already an impressively proficient computer user. She uses and understands phrases like "the server must be down," and "I think I will reboot." (When I was her age, the TRS-80 hadn't yet arrived on the scene and I was using phrases more like "they will never invent anything cooler than Stretch Armstrong-AE." I note for the record that this statement is, in fact, true.) But it hadn't occurred to her that there was a world beyond being a user.
So, when I told her that I was teaching the computer to do something new, she looked a little confused and then gradually amazed. "You can teach them to do new things?" she said in a tone of disbelief.
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