Summary: Panel Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp) David Brady (blog witter github ADDcasts) James Edward Gray (blog twitter github) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Discussion "The fundamentals are hidden by the incidentals" C/Lisp to learn programming Scheme SmallTalk Dynabook BASIC Haskell JavaScript AppleScript Erlang Ruby BASH Actor Models Any language can be a good language depending on the concepts you're conveying You can't teach experience Object Oriented Programming Functional Programming Don't teach the edge cases first "Why would you start with an Object Oriented language and not teach Objects in the first lesson?" Object = Identity + State + Behavior [Ruby]'s as easy to teach as Visual Basic The first language people learn is Excel Avoid ceremony Static Analysis Synthetic Programming on a TI-85 Logo (Turtle) Pascal 8085 bytecodes opcodes Assembly Language Ruby Garbage Collector Memory Management C malloc/free Forth RPN language Picks RubyMine (Josh) PuzzleNode (James) Zoe Keating (James) Radio Lab episode on Zoe Keating (James) in C remixed (James) Star Wars uncut (David) Apple Magic Mouse (Chuck) Dora The Explorer (Chuck)
