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On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 5:41:01 AM UTC-6, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Hello.
>=20
> At FOSDEM, my colleague Thomas Maluszycki gave a talk[1] about rapid
> application development in Ada.  This made me think.  You see, I have a
> 14-year-old son whom I teach programming to.  He is lukewarm about it
> but I think it is my duty as a parent to give him basic education in
> this field, as computers are already everywhere and will probably govern
> his live even more than ours.  So I played with him with Colobot[2],
> taught him a little bit of Ada (with the French translation of Barnes'
> book for Ada 95), a little bit of ZX Spectrum BASIC, and now he's
> writing a Pong clone with the L=C3=96VE framework[3], in Lua[4].  This
> framework makes it very easy to have immediate results...  but Lua lacks
> strong typing and in particular range checking, and a debugger.
>=20
> So it occurred to me that L=C3=96VE is really a Lua binding to SDL plus a
> predefined event loop, and that it would be quite easy to do something
> similar based on the sdlada thick binding.  The goal would be to attract
> teenage programmers to the language and to programming in general.
> Possibly on a Raspberry Pi.  I'd be willing to make a Debian package for
> it.  What do you think?
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> [1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ada_rad/
> [2] http://colobot.info/
> [3] http://love2d.org/
> [4] https://www.lua.org/
>=20
> --=20
> Ludovic Brenta.
> The partners leverage consumer-facing potentials.

Wonderful idea.  Go forth & prosper.  Consider packaging for as many Linux =
variants as possible.  For example, Chromebooks are ubiquitous in the USA's=
 schools (i.e., the ones that are not still loyal to Apple iPad).  Consider=
 every way of rolling the red carpet out to educational institutions' habit=
s & comfort zones (e.g., ChromeOS app) instead of only a hobbyist board for=
 at-home/independent-study/extra-curricular use.