Re: objects and forth

--- On Mon, 2/2/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, given your justified lack of faith in
> academia, how
> would you recommend a young adult in today's world went
> about learning
> to program?  

Storytelling Alice
http://www.alice.org/kelleher/storytelling/

I think the design of Alice3 includes the investments of Storytelling Alice
  
> but most the money is in those insane
> paradigms.  Do you learn the new Forths and hope that
> somehow you will find employment with that, and thus not "sell
> out"?

If you're going to get a job as a programmer it's best is you don't learn how to program.  It will only cause you grief.


> Should people still be learning assembly for the PC and
> going from
> there? 

M68k assembly seems the best.

> Is that the best starting point?  Should the PC be
> skipped
> altogether?  What books could even be recommended?  

Science & Sanity. by ALFRED KORZYBSKI
http://esgs.free.fr/uk/art/sands.htm

Start with Semiotics and work your way up.

You need to teach them multilevel references and recursive definitions.