Show HN: A small programming course for everyone

Looks like IT classes I had in Poland 20 years ago. We used a programming language called Logo where we programmed movinng a turtle across a canvas. I absolutely detested those classes and never understood the purpose... I started liking programming when seen a real world problem like make an ajax request... but there were guys who liked it this way. I suppose everything have it’s audience. And well done yo the creator for taking his own time to write it!

Looks a bit like BASIC and python were walking down the road, triped over and fell inside a blender... Not bad, but having learnt to program in BASIC in my childhood, and having moved on to python over the years (plus a few in betweeners), I have mixed feelings.<p>BASIC was easy (and I see that in the drawing commands included in this course), but it limited you in ways you didn&#x27;t know (. A lot of that &quot;easiness&quot; can come from something as simple as:<p><pre><code> from easy_operations import * </code></pre> ...(going full python here, I know) and then you work out introducing how those operations are performed on more advanced courses.<p>Still, a good experiment on teaching how to program.

It&#x27;s good.<p>This is how Dr.Racket and Khan Academy pretty much teaches programming. But note that for a brain which is not naturally inclined towards programming (and numbers), the examples increasingly get very complicated and fast. I say this as a non-programmer who has spent a lot of time trying to learn programming on the side. I have eventually concluded that all these &quot;teaching beginners programming efforts&quot; lack the real world middle-ware modules, where one learns to practically program with database etc, for useful applications.<p>In any case, the methods presented here, are good, but not necessarily pedagogically perfect.

I am looking for a starting programming language for my kids. I don&#x27;t really like these lego-like drag-and-drop visual programming &quot;languages&quot; though. This definitely looks like in the right direction. Thanks for sharing!

Great work.. I liked. And i want to and going to learn program language.