Reply to post: Re: Coding? HTML more like.

A nation of CODERS? Yes, says UK.gov, and have some cash to do it

Boris the Cockroach Silver badge
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Re: Coding? HTML more like.

Noooo give them assembler... or better still flipping switches in a magnetic bubble memory thats when programming was real programming and we all lived in hole in middle of t' road....

you dont need a langauge to teach programming, english does the trick.

Because I start off with the fresh faced school leavers (actually the drop outs) who end up in a factory full of robots, who then watch as I make the things sing and dance (or would do if the boss let me).

And the way I teach the programmming is always the same : get the kids to write down in clear english exactly what they are trying to get the machine to do, then break it down into simple steps eg

Move left 100mm;

Select tool 2;

Check if tool broken, if so, select tool 3;

Then translate it into the code the machine understands, once you've got that drill into them, it does'nt matter which langauge they end up using.

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