Teaching Kids Forth

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cameldrv•43 minutes ago

Writing RPL on my HP48 as a young teenager influenced the way I thought about programming significantly. RPL IMO is underrated as an educational tool. It introduces the stack based concept, but also the "everything is an object" concept. As a useful language I'm not sure, but it was definitely fun to think about.

q2dg•10 minutes ago

Why not Processing or P5.js?

veltas•about 2 hours ago

I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.

rbanffy•about 1 hour ago

My kid was curious about my HP-35 and I taught them how it works. They got it in no time and I made it an exercise to rewrite math expressions in RPN.

Not sure they are that interested in programming, but FORTH is a little sweet language.

My first experience with it was Paul Lutus’ GraFORTH. On the Apple II it was ridiculously fast.