I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.
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Teaching Kids Forth
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#12Why not Processing or P5.js?
did you read the post? it doesn't mention those by name but the reasons it gives for not teaching other languages/tools apply to those too
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#13Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals" is well-suited for any level student. It's quite fun and made a mark on my thinking. It's hard for a postfix dereference operator not to.
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#14I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.
My kid was curious about my HP-35 and I taught them how it works. They got it in no time and I made it an exercise to rewrite math expressions in RPN. Not sure they are that interested in programming, but FORTH is a little sweet language. My first experience with it was Paul Lutus’ GraFORTH. On the Apple II it was ridiculously fast.
Well that’s next weekend sorted, thanks!
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#15Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals" is well-suited for any level student. It's quite fun and made a mark on my thinking. It's hard for a postfix dereference operator not to.
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#16I doubly enjoyed reading this because I feel like I'm reasonably sure the author never ran this through an LLM because of the "cirriculum" typo.
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#17I doubly enjoyed reading this because I feel like I'm reasonably sure the author never ran this through an LLM because of the "cirriculum" typo.
Because it occurred more than once, my first thought was it must be a British variant. But I guess not.
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#18I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.
Kids need an antidote to the brain damage that is standard mathematical notation. I prefer lisps variadic prefix notation, but if you're just doing fixed arity functions without higher order functions than prefix and post fix are as good as each other, and you don't have the dreaded sea of parenthesis.
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#19I doubly enjoyed reading this because I feel like I'm reasonably sure the author never ran this through an LLM because of the "cirriculum" typo.
Because it occurred more than once, my first thought was it must be a British variant. But I guess not.
The u and i keys are adjacent, so it's a plausible typo.
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#20All things considered, unfortunately, we are better off teaching them plumbing or painting ...