Getting my sister to learn programming

Ruby
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On 2/15/07, Mushfeq K. [email protected] wrote:

You should teach her Javascript. I’m serious.

You get an IDE that she’s probably already comfortable with, and the
immediacy of getting cool things to show up in webpages. It’s not a very
conventional introduction to programming I know, but that’s all the more
reason to try it!

javascript itself is a beautiful language, but trying to do anything
real with it will involve messing with the browser DOM, which I’d
strongly derecommend.

martin

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But, although JS is a very powerful language, it is an ugly one
syntax-wise,
and that immediately throws it off.

Remember how I failed miserably when trying to teach her C.

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Javascript syntax is scary.