From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-01-25T17:05:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE for Windows 98?

On 1/25/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, may I suggest a lesson learned from years of trying to teach my
> sister programming:
>
> Graphics BEFORE number crunching and text processing.

When I taught my brother to program, I started with text i/o. He had
great fun writing little quiz programs (ask a question, present a few
choices, wait for an answer, repeat), unit conversion programs, etc.
Text is more interactive than graphics that way.

martin