[geeks] Introductory programming language?

[David Eisner]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
> Any thoughts?
>

For what it's worth:

   A Survey of Literature on the Teaching of Introductory Programming
   http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~eas285/Readings/Pears_SurveyTeachingIntroProgra
mming.pdf

   "...Despite the popularity of languages such as Java, C and
C++, there has been much debate about the suitability of
these languages for education, especially when introducing
programming to novices (for example [66, 47, 12, 22, 23]).
These languages have not been designed specio,
cally for educational
purposes, in contrast to others that have been
designed with this specio,
c purpose in mind (e.g., Python,
Logo, Eio,el, Pascal)."


Might be overkill, but some of the referenced papers could be interesting.

-David