[TriLUG] Teaching Kids to Program

Lance A. Brown via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Thu Aug 27 22:40:17 EDT 2015


Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote on 8/27/2015 9:07 PM:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:41:47 +0000
> "Joseph S. Tate via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> and optionally
>>
>> 4) A rule processing language (like Prolog)
> 
> I probably put in 40 to 80 hours messing with Prolog, and could never
> get it to do more than the simplest things. It's very different, and at
> least for me, very difficult.

Oh god... I took a one month intensive course on Prolog in college.
Learned it pretty well, but the declarative nature of Prolog absolutely
ruined my programming in C, Pascal, etc. for months afterward.  Totally
messed me up.

--[Lance]


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