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On Saturday, 8 February 2020 at 12:41:01 UTC+1, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Hello.=20
>=20
> At FOSDEM, my colleague Thomas Maluszycki gave a talk[1] about rapid=20
> application development in Ada. This made me think. You see, I have a=20
> 14-year-old son whom I teach programming to. He is lukewarm about it=20
> but I think it is my duty as a parent to give him basic education in=20
> this field, as computers are already everywhere and will probably govern=
=20
> his live even more than ours. So I played with him with Colobot[2],=20
> taught him a little bit of Ada (with the French translation of Barnes'=20
> book for Ada 95), a little bit of ZX Spectrum BASIC, and now he's=20
> writing a Pong clone with the L=C3=96VE framework[3], in Lua[4]. This=20
> framework makes it very easy to have immediate results... but Lua lacks=
=20
> strong typing and in particular range checking, and a debugger.=20
>=20
> So it occurred to me that L=C3=96VE is really a Lua binding to SDL plus a=
=20
> predefined event loop, and that it would be quite easy to do something=20
> similar based on the sdlada thick binding. The goal would be to attract=
=20
> teenage programmers to the language and to programming in general.=20
> Possibly on a Raspberry Pi. I'd be willing to make a Debian package for=
=20
> it. What do you think?=20
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> [1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ada_rad/=20
> [2] http://colobot.info/=20
> [3] http://love2d.org/=20
> [4] https://www.lua.org/=20
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> --=20
> Ludovic Brenta.=20
> The partners leverage consumer-facing potentials.

Hi Ludovic,
  there could be an alternative for teaching kids programming. Have a look =
at Object Oriented Turing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programmin=
g_language)).
  Strong typed, with a simple syntax, and powerful constructs. The language=
 was used at University of Toronto, and in high schools in Ontario.=20

The only drawback is that the system is no longer maintained.=20

 - Object Oriented Turing Reference:
          http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/OOTRef.pdf
- Introduction to Programming in Turing:
          http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/IPT.pdf
- The environment:
     http://tristan.hume.ca/openturing/
-  ... and more here ...
     http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/

Regards,
  Darek