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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? A rant... Post 303023589 by Corona688 on Wednesday 19th of September 2018 01:38:26 PM

09-19-2018

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They have to start somewhere, and have to want to. Having the vague idea they want to program won't motivate them to crack books thicker than their wrist. Most people never learn this stuff, and they're only nine!

Whatever they begin with should be simple and interactive. Mindstorm(or whatever Lego calls it now) might do the trick and won't kill them. I learned QBASIC and even now still use it a few times a year to rapidly visualize something - drawing one graphical line in QBASIC is "MODE 12", "LINE (X,X)-(Y,Y),color". Name a "real" language which can do that without five times as much preamble!

Anyway, young also means sharp. They will quickly discover the limitations of whatever tinkertoy language you give them, and that may motivate them to learn something better. I hated that couldn't do STRING=print a,b,c in BASIC. But I found that feature in C as "sprintf", which ended up leading me to Linux, UNIX, Web Development, networking, shell, and my career up to now.

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vimtutor

VIMTUTOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       VIMTUTOR(1)

NAME

       vimtutor - the Vim tutor

SYNOPSIS

       vimtutor [language]

DESCRIPTION

       Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor.  It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file.

       The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands.

       The  optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like "it" or "es".  If the [language] argument is missing, the lan-
       guage of the current locale will be used.  If a tutor in this language is available, it will be used.  Otherwise the English  version  will
       be used.

       Vim is always started in Vi compatible mode.

FILES

       /usr/share/vim/vim62/tutor/tutor[.language]
		      The Vimtutor text file(s).

       /usr/share/vim/vim62/tutor/tutor.vim
		      The Vim script used to copy the Vimtutor text file.

AUTHOR

       The  Vimtutor  was  originally  written	for  Vi  by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado School of Mines using ideas supplied by
       Charles Smith, Colorado State University.  E-mail: bware@mines.colorado.edu.
       It was modified for Vim by Bram Moolenaar.  For the names of the translators see the tutor files.

SEE ALSO

       vim(1)

								   2001 April 2 						       VIMTUTOR(1)