Date   : Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:56:06 +0100 (BST)
From   : "F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...>
Subject: Re: Basic & BBC Basic

> So teaching a class of children BBC BASIC is not really what I would
> call
> helpful. It would have more significance in a history lesson, as
> would
> talking about the generic parts of a CPU... ALU etc. Opening up and
> dissecting a BBC machine (shudder) is all fine and good fun but
> follow it up
> with a dissection of a PC.
> 
> If through some higher level programming introduction, they gain an
> interest, then their young spirits can be nurtured and guided and
> they may
> one day also learn to use the force.

I would have thought it would have been helpful to an extent... first
to teach kids that there are platforms other than PC.  Secondly, to
show them that there are computers that you can program at switch on
without needing third party packages, like how it should be... also
that computers should be switched on in seconds not 10 minutes! :-) 
RISC machines are the modern day examples of the above mentioned.

Fiaz.

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