From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T17:37:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting my sister to learn programming

On 2/15/07, Mushfeq Khan <mushfeq.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> You should teach her Javascript. I'm serious.
>
> You get an IDE that she's probably already comfortable with, and the
> immediacy of getting cool things to show up in webpages. It's not a very
> conventional introduction to programming I know, but that's all the more
> reason to try it!

javascript itself is a beautiful language, but trying to do anything
real with it will involve messing with the browser DOM, which I'd
strongly derecommend.

martin